I am Professor in Digital Culture in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Informatics at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. My research and teaching examine how power operates in journalism through place-making, international political and environmental communication, and emerging technologies that shape journalistic authority. I also study and teach digital cultures—spanning social media, virtual reality, and AI—through critical and cultural frameworks, analyzing how digital content creators act as both agents of change and conduits of dominant narratives in global and local contexts. I share life with my wife and our two sons.