Investigating generative AI, visual media, authenticity, and audience perception through computational social data analysis and creative practice.
Investigating generative AI, visual media, authenticity, and audience perception through computational social data analysis and creative practice.
Research Program
My research examines how generative artificial intelligence is transforming visual media, audience perception, authenticity, and public discourse. I am particularly interested in how people interpret and trust images, performances, and historical representations in an era when visual content can be created, altered, or circulated through AI systems.
My work brings together computational social data analysis, audience research, film studies, and creative practice. I study digital conversations across platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn to understand how audiences, creators, and media professionals frame questions of trust, identity, ethics, and representation.
As a filmmaker and media scholar, I approach research as both analytical and creative. My projects connect scholarly investigation with film practice, exploring how emerging technologies shape storytelling, cultural memory, and the ways people understand visual truth.
Research Interests
#Generative AI & Visual Media
#Human Cognition
#Audience Reception
#Authenticity & Trust
#Digital Culture
#Social Data Analysis
#Film & Media Studies
#Historical Representation
#Deepfakes & Synthetic Media
#Creative Practice Research
Current Projects
A comparative social data analysis of Instagram and LinkedIn discourse about AI, filmmaking, creative labor, and professional identity.
Research examining how audiences respond to AI-generated visual content and how synthetic media affects trust, authenticity, and interpretation.
A creative research project exploring how AI-generated imagery complicates authorship, performance, identity, and the portrayal of historical figures.
Publications
Social Data Analysis of Audience Reception of Historical Accuracy and Creative License in the Netflix Series Queen Cleopatra on YouTube: A Case Study
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 70(3), 2026.
Conference Presentations
My research has been presented at national and international conferences in media studies, communication, and film, contributing to interdisciplinary conversations on artificial intelligence, audience perception, digital culture, and visual media.
Media Ecology Association Conference (MEA) 2026
University of Winnipeg, Canada
Framing AI in Filmmaking: A Comparative Social Data Analysis of Instagram and LinkedIn Discourse
This presentation examined how filmmakers, creators, and media professionals discuss generative AI across Instagram and LinkedIn, focusing on authenticity, creative labor, emerging professional identities, and the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and filmmaking.
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Entertaining or Mis/Disinforming? Social Data Analysis of Audience Reception of Historical Accuracy and Creative License in the Netflix Series Queen Cleopatra on YouTube: A Case Study
This presentation explored audience responses to Netflix's Queen Cleopatra by analyzing YouTube discussions surrounding historical accuracy, creative license, and public perceptions of authenticity. The study examined how online audiences negotiate historical representation, misinformation, and entertainment within contemporary streaming media.
Research Methods
Analyzing digital discourse across social media platforms.
Identifying recurring themes, frames, and audience interpretations.
Combining qualitative interpretation with quantitative patterns.
Using filmmaking as a method for exploring media, identity, and technology.
Collaborations
Social Media Analytics Research Team, Scripps College of Communication.
School of Media Arts & Studies.
Research, teaching, and interdisciplinary media scholarship.