He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria (2008) and, with Lila Abu-Lughod and Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2000). Larkin’s research focuses on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria. He has published widely on issues of globalization, piracy and intellectual property, and Nigerian films (Nollywood) in such journals as Public Culture, Africa, Social Text, and Cahiers d’Études africaines. Larkin is currently working on a book, provisionally titled Secular Machines: Media and the Materiality of Islamic Revival, which analyzes the role of media in the rise of new Islamic movements in Nigeria. Website