About Us

Brooke Erin Duffy, Ph.D.

Brooke Erin Duffy is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, where she holds appointments in the Department of Communication and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.  Her specific areas of interest include digital and social media industries; gender, identity, and inequality; and the impact of new technologies on creative work and labor. She's the author of two monographs on gender and cultural production, including (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work (Yale University Press, 2017), which draws upon research with fashion bloggers, YouTubers, and Instagrammers to explore the culture and politics of the digital labor. Wired named it one of the "Top Tech Books of 2017."

David Nieborg, Ph.D.

David Nieborg is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. He has held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, Utrecht University, the Queensland University of Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David published over two dozen articles on the game industry, apps and platform economics, and games journalism in academic outlets inclusing New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, the European Journal for Cultural Studies, and Media, Culture and Society. He co-founded the App Studies Initiative and the Critical Digital Methods Institute.

Thomas Poell, Ph.D.

Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. He is director of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures at the UvA, and part of the core team Audiovisual Data and Media Studies of the national infrastructural project CLARIAH (NWO). His research is focused on digital platforms and the transformation of public communication around the globe. Poell is co-author of The Platform Society with José van Dijck and Martijn de Waal (Oxford University Press, 2018). Furthermore, he co-edited The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage, 2018), Social Media Materialities and Protest (Routledge, 2018), and Global Cultures of Contestation (Palgrave/McMillan, 2017).