I am a social scientist, based at the University of Klagenfurt in 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). My forthcoming book, Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Precarisation and Digitalisation, will be published with Routledge in 2023.

NEWS: YOU CAN FIND ME AT THE FOLLOWING EVENT(S)

‘Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit’. Tagung des Netzwerks Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. 12-14 May 2022, https://krikowi.net/wien

Communication, Capitalism and Critique: Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century, ESA RN18 mid-term conference 2022, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, 1-3 September 2022, https://rn18esa.wordpress.com

NEWS: CfP: Critical Sociology of Media and Communication: Theoretical contributions to a disconnected field, Symposium in Critical Sociology, Guest Editors: Paško Bilić and Thomas Allmer, https://bit.ly/3AR2WGK

Research interests

My research focuses on:

• Critical social theory
• Political economy of media, information and communication
• Digital media and society
• Digital labour and capitalism
• Universities and academic labour

Last update: July 2022