I am a social scientist, based at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. My publications include Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism with Peter Lang in 2012 and Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification with Routledge in 2015. My forthcoming book, Academic Labour in Times of Precarisation and Digitalisation, will be published with Routledge in 2021.

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

Invited talk on 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 2021