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

Christian Fuchs Professor, Westminster School of Media and Communication

Laura Forlano Writer and Design Researcher

Jonathan Beller Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute

Victoria Scott Artist

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

Ben Peters Associate Professor, Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa

Mark Coté Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies at Trent University with a focus on media and communication

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

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

Christopher M. Kelty Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles

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

Ferentz Lafargue Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College

Yuri Takhteyev CTO of rangle.io

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

Ursula Endlicher Artist

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

Brooke Singer Media Artist

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

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

Ivan Sigal Executive Director of Global Voices

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

Jonah Brucker-Cohen Researcher and Artist

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

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

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

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

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

Howard Rheingold Writer & Critic

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

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

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

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

Idil Abshir Journalist

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

Michel Bauwens Founder Director, P2P Foundation

Adam Arvidsson Author & Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano

Jesse Drew Writer and Media Artist

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

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

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

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

Luis Vincent Nunez

Christiane Paul Associate Professor at the New School

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

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

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

Trebor Scholz Founding Director of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, Platform Cooperativism Consortium, The New School

Alexander Galloway Author and Programmer

Scott Kildall Artist

Heather Chaplin Brooklyn-based author and journalist

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

Ayhan Ayteş

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

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

Lisa Nakamura Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies program and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

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

Brian Holmes Cultural Critic

Joseph Heathcott Writer, Educator, and Curator

Ellen Goodman Professor, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden

Christina McPhee Artist

James Grimmelman Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School

Judith Rodenbeck Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Burak Arikan Istanbul and New York based Artist

Lauren Ellsworth Full Stack Engineering Manager, Flatiron Health

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

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

Pat Kane Musician, Writer, Consultant and Activist

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

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

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

Julian Dibbell Author

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

Alex Halavais Associate Professor of Data & Society at Arizona State University, a Social Media Researcher and Former President of the Association of Internet Researchers

Amanda McDonald Crowley Cultural Worker, Curator, & Facilitator

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

Julian Kücklich Teaches game design at Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin

Melissa Gregg Author & Researcher

McKenzie Wark Professor of Culture and Media, The New School

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

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

Gina Neff Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington

Martin Roberts Professor, Media Studies at Eugene Lang College

Julia Sonnevend Doctoral Student in Communications at Columbia University, a visiting fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology (Yale University), the Center on Organizational Innovation (Columbia University), and the Center for Media and Communications Studies (Central European University).

Ulises A. Mejias Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department at SUNY at Oswego

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