I am a research associate at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University in Germany. I am also the coordinator of Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research of the European Sociological Association and co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. My research and teaching are grounded in critical social theory and the political economy of media and communication, with a special focus on digital media and digital labour. 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 new book, Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation, was published with Routledge in 2023.

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

Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods. Summer School at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia, 11-15 September 2023, http://www.poleconmed.net/

Casualisation, Precarity and Career in Higher Education. ESA Postgraduate Committee Online Seminar, 27 September 2023, https://www.europeansociology.org/event/259453ca-61f9-484d-a5ed-39e7ebeb6509/

Talk at the annual conference of the German Media Studies Association. University of Bonn, Germany, 27-30 September 2023, http://gfm2023.de/

Research and teaching interests

My research and teaching focuses on:

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

Last update: January 2023