He completed his PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2015. His research has been supported by numerous institutions including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, and Stiftung Mercator. He recently completed a 2 year research grant funded by the Turkish Science and Technology Foundation (TUBITAK). His research interests include computer assisted methods focusing on Twitter & Instagram, digital sociology, sociology of data and data journalism. His upcoming publication, "Algorithms, Dashboards and Datafication: A Critical Evaluation of Social Media Monitoring" will be featured in Palgrave Macmillan's Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction (2018).