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

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

Howard Rheingold Writer & Critic

James Grimmelman Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School

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

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

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

Yuri Takhteyev CTO of rangle.io

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

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

Amanda McDonald Crowley Cultural Worker, Curator, & Facilitator

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

Martin Roberts Professor, Media Studies at Eugene Lang College

Laura Forlano Writer and Design Researcher

Jesse Drew Writer and Media Artist

Ellen Goodman Professor, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden

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

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

Jonathan Beller Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute

Scott Kildall Artist

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

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

Christina McPhee Artist

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

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

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

Jonah Brucker-Cohen Researcher and Artist

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

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

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

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

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

Melissa Gregg Author & Researcher

Brooke Singer Media Artist

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

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

Pat Kane Musician, Writer, Consultant and Activist

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

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

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

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

Christian Fuchs Professor, Westminster School of Media and Communication

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

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

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

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

Michel Bauwens Founder Director, P2P Foundation

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

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).

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

McKenzie Wark Professor of Culture and Media, The New School

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

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

Julian Kücklich Teaches game design at Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin

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

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

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

Julian Dibbell Author

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

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

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

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

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

Joseph Heathcott Writer, Educator, and Curator

Judith Rodenbeck Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Luis Vincent Nunez Lawyer

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

Idil Abshir Journalist

Ferentz Lafargue Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College

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

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

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

Ursula Endlicher Artist

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

Alexander Galloway Author and Programmer

Christiane Paul Associate Professor at the New School

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

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

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

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

Ivan Sigal Executive Director of Global Voices

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

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

Heather Chaplin Brooklyn-based author and journalist

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

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

Burak Arikan Istanbul and New York based Artist

Brian Holmes Cultural Critic

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

Victoria Scott Artist

Lauren Ellsworth Full Stack Engineering Manager, Flatiron Health