His recent work examines the social utility ofsmartphones, with a focus on how this technology is used to bridge and bond with social ties. He has more than 20 published works, appearing in venues such as the JCMC, Human Communication Research, the American Behavioral Scientist Communication Research, and Information, Communication and Society. Dr. Boase received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and while completing his studies he spent a year at the Harvard Kennedy School on a predoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Digital Government. After receiving his Ph.D. he spent two years working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo.