He studies digital media and culture through material, historical, and social-theoretical lenses to understand how technologies perpetuate unequal power relations. He currently researches how piracy animates normative understandings of technologies that disenfranchise and marginalize innovators and users. He has published in top communication and media journals about digital culture, mobile technologies, video games, and social theory. He co-edited, with Adriana de Souza e Silva, Digital cityscapes: Merging digital and urban playspaces.