The Internet As Playground And Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor

Amanda McDonald Crowley Cultural Worker, Curator, & Facilitator

Brittany Anne Chozinski Associate Professor at Northeast Lakeview College in Universal City, Texas

Chris Barr Artist and Designer - Assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at West Virginia University

Ayhan Ayteş Visiting Assistant Professor, Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications

Douglas Rushkoff Founder, Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens

Catherine Driscoll Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney

Luis Vincent Nunez Lawyer

Joseph Heathcott Writer, Educator, and Curator

Heather Chaplin Brooklyn-based author and journalist

Brian Holmes Cultural Critic

Victoria Scott Artist

Julia Sonnevend Doctoral Student in Communications at Columbia University

Abigail De Kosnik Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies

Francesco Gagliardi Performance Artist, Historian of Performance, and filmmaker based in New York City

Christiane Paul Associate Professor at the New School

Michael H. Goldhaber Writer and Consultant living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ferentz Lafargue Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College

Meredith L. McGill Associate Professor of English and director of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University

Trebor Scholz New School professor, Author, and Founding Director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Alexander Galloway Author and Programmer

Lilly Irani Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego

Mark Coté Senior Lecturer in Data Culture and Society at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL

Sumita Chakravarty Associate Professor of Media Studies, former chair of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College The New School

Frank Pasquale Member of the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society & Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project

Orit Halpern Assistant professor in History at the New School of Social Research and Eugene Lang College

Dominic Pettman Associate Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene College and The New School for Social Research

DJ N-RON Artist and Producer based in Brooklyn, NY

Sean Cubitt Director of the program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee

Howard Rheingold Writer & Critic

Hector Postigo Ph.D. Associate Professor, Klein College of communication temple University

Julian Kücklich Teaches game design at Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin

Gabriella Coleman Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU

Elizabeth Stark Co-Founder and CEO, Lightning Lab - Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU

McKenzie Wark Professor of Culture and Media, The New School

Ellen Goodman Professor, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden

Carolyn Lee Kane Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at Ryerson University, Toronto

Kenneth Rogers Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Studies department of the University of California at Riverside

Fred Turner Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University

James Grimmelman Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School

André D. Singleton Educator, Human Rights Activist, and Multi-disciplinary Artist

Ivan Sigal Executive Director of Global Voices

Robert Mitchell Associate Professor in the Department of English, Affiliated faculty member in Women’s Studies, & Faculty Member of the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University

Mark Larrimore Director of the Religious Studies program at Eugene Lang College

Brooke Singer Media Artist

Hendrick Speck Professor of Digital Media at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern in the department of Computer Sciences/ Interactive Media & Head of the Information Architecture/Search Engine Laboratory

Laura Y. Liu Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School

Paolo Carpignano Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at The New School and coordinator of the MA/PhD program in the sociology of media

Judith Rodenbeck Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Martin Roberts Professor, Media Studies at Eugene Lang College

Yuri Takhteyev CTO of rangle.io

Ned Rossiter Associate Professor of Network Cultures at the University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China and an Adjunct Senior Research fellow of the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Fred Benenson Creator of Pitch Deck & Board Member of Rhizome.org

Mark Andrejevic Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Queensland

Banu Bargu Assistant Professor of Political Science at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College

Paul Hartzog Professor, University of Michigan’s School of Information

Darren Wershler Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department of Wilfrid Laurier University & part of the faculty at the CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art and Entertainment program

Idil Abshir Journalist

Jesse Drew Writer and Media Artist

Jonah Brucker-Cohen Researcher and Artist

Kate Eichhorn Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School

Thomas Malaby Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

David Golumbia Assistant Professor of Media Studies, English, and Linguistics at the University of Virginia

Timothy Pachirat Assistant Professor of politics at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College

Burak Arikan Istanbul and New York based Artist

Jodi Dean Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University

Scott Kildall Artist

Alex Halavais Associate Professor of Data & Society at Arizona State University

Melissa Gregg Author & Researcher

Jonathan L. Zittrain Professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School & a Faculty co-Director of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Geoff Cox Lecturer at the University of Plymouth (UK), artist, writer, and Associate Curator of Online Projects at Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)

Pat Kane Musician, Writer, Consultant and Activist

Stephanie Rothenberg Associate Professor in the Department of Art at SUNY Buffalo

Patricia Ticineto Clough Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York-Queens College and the Graduate Center

Niva Elkin-Koren Dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law & Founding Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT)

Jonathan Beller Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute

Ursula Endlicher Artist

Deborah Levitt Assistant Professor in the department of Culture and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College

Christian Fuchs Professor, Westminster School of Media and Communication

Nick Montfort Associate Professor of Digital Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Laura E. DeNardis Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project

Edward Maloney Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and the Director of research and development at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship