I’m a Doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
My work is supervised by Professor Greg Taylor and Professor Vili Lehdonvirta.
My research examines instruments to distribute the economic and political power of digital platforms, with a particular interest in interoperability. I aim to bridge my technical understanding of internet architecture (e.g., protocols, standards) with platform economics (e.g., network effects, switching costs), platform governance (e.g., rule-setting and moderation), and platform regulation (e.g., the EU’s Digital Markets Act).
My doctoral project zooms in on social networking interoperability: whether, and under what conditions, it expands user choice. I provide some of the first real-world evidence on a remedy that is already entering legislation. I draw on novel, large-scale datasets and both qualitative and quantitative methods (statistics, NLP, network analysis).
Before, I was a hacker, among the first video podcasters (2008–2013), advised over 450 international corporations and governments on the digital transformation (2010–2022), and wrote two books on the digital generations (2013, 2017). I studied “Sociology, Politics & Economics” at Zeppelin University (2015–2021) and “Social Science of the Internet” at the Oxford Internet Institute (2021–2023).
