I am a socio cultural anthropologist, and I use He, Him, His pronouns. My research focuses on the relationship between technology and society, particularly how technologies limit, enable, and program their users and shape social structures. In my Ph.D. dissertation, based on a long term ethnographic fieldwork, I investigated human computer interaction and user experience in the Persian blogosphere. I examined how the technological medium contributes to the creation of bloggers identities and how these identities, in turn, affect social and political transformation. I am also interested in the future of work in the current algorithmically controlled business architectures where the contemporary technology culture of creative entrepreneurial labour, the emergent post corporate economy, and the cultural logic of neoliberal capitalism seek to shift the burden of care and responsibility from social institutions to individuals. Since 2018, I have been teaching in UBCs Department of Anthropology. I regularly teach the introductory course to cultural anthropology and other core anthropological theory and ethnographic methods courses, as well as two thematic courses, Anthropology of Media, and Ethnographies of the Middle East. Outside of academia, I am an avid cyclist and enjoy commuting with my 5 year old puppy, who loves the attention he receives from cyclists, drivers, and pedestrians while sitting in his dog seat in the front!