My research broadly explores the intersection between communication in a global context and the singularities of the communicative practices of marginal groups within this context. I have a keen interest, for instance, in how linguistic minorities in peripheral, transnational societies deploy their indigenous languages for mass communication.

I am also interested in the transnational, mass-mediated, online discourses of marginalized diasporas in the West. I study this by looking at the alternative and citizen online journalistic practices of previously disempowered Third World ethnoscapes whose voluntary geographic displacement to the Western core imbues them with the cultural and social capital to be vanguards for potentially transformative cross-border exchanges with their homelands. This was the broad focus of my second book, which investigated the robust growth and flowering of U.S.-based Nigerian citizen media sites that have been radically transforming homeland journalistic practices and state policies.

I also research and write on social media, journalistic objectivity, and international Englishes, especially the deviations of the non-native varieties of the English language from American and British English, the world’s two most dominant native varieties.

Very broadly, my scholarly and pedagogical interests revolve around Online Journalism, Globalization and New Media, Communication/Media Theory, Media Management, Alternative and Citizen/Community Media, Diaspora Media, Online Communities, Online Sociability, Political Economy of Mass Communication, Media English, Grammar, Mass Media and Society, and International Mass Media.