I studied media and communication and political science at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and the Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. After I had finished my PhD in 2014, I started as a Lecturer in Social Justice at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, followed by a post as a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. Since 2019, I have been working as a Postdoc at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In addition, I am a Co-Director of The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vienna, Austria. My publications include Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2012) and Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification (Routledge, 2015).
NEWS: YOU CAN FIND ME AS SPEAKER AT THE FOLLOWING EVENT(S)
Invited talk in the panel ‘Digitale Arbeit, Möglichkeiten der Organisierung und gewerkschaftlicher Kämpfe’ at ver.di goes digital – Digitalkongress ver.di Bezirk München. Gewerkschaftshaus München, Germany. 7 March 2020.
Invited talk about the Political Economy of the Internet at the MARX IS MUSS Conference. Berlin, Germany. 22 May 2020, https://marxismuss.de – CANCELLED
Communication, Capitalism and Critique: Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century, ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2020, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, 10-12 September 2020, https://rn18esa.wordpress.com – CANCELLED
Research interests
My research interests include:
- Critical social theory
- Political economy of media, information and communication
- Sociology of technology
- Digital labour and capitalism
- Digital media and society
- Privacy and surveillance studies
- Universities and academic labour
Last update: July 2020