At the International Communication Association (ICA), he is the Chair for the Mobile Communication Interest Group. He is also an Affiliated Fellow at Yale LAw School's Information Society Project. In 2016 he was a Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, he was a postdoctoral fellow in media and law at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. In 2014 he received his PhD in Communications from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.