His teaching and research focus on the intersection of media and urban studies, an area in which he has published a number of journal articles and book chapters. He was a founding co-chair of the Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and is a co-founder of Mediapolis. He is the co-editor, along with Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist, of Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice (Routledge, 2016).