My research program is centred around incorporating comparative perspectives to the study of global political communication in the Global South. I work across three interconnected areas: State-sponsored news and their impact on public opinion, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Spanish-speaking South America; the connections between new forms of mis- and disinformation and public opinion towards global powers such as China; and the use of computational methods to assess how both State-sponsored news and disinformation shape the news agenda of African digital media.

In earlier work, I explored the intersections of politics, news media, and popular culture in East Asian countries (China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula), examining media system evolution, the global circulation of popular culture, and the role of new information technologies in news distribution. My doctoral research took a multi-method approach to studying the presence of Chinese media in Kenya and South Africa.