Digital/platform capitalism
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@jmigozzi.bsky.social
@alinau27.bsky.social
Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Cambridge University via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech. she/her www.alinautrata.com
@amateurgarde.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lucerne University. Researching libraries/librarians, valuation, amateurization, and resisting organizations (not necessarily connected, but 🤷♀️)
@gregbamber.bsky.social
Research in Oz & internationally: AI, new technologies, IR, HR, decent work, workplaces: airlines, hospitals, universities, unions, employers: http://tinyurl.com/Monash-CV
@drtombarnes.bsky.social
Sociologist of work & economy, Australian Catholic University, researching warehouse logistics, auto manufacturing, precarity, labour regimes, India, Australia
@snigdhakumar.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Univeristy of Minnesota Sociology. Capitalism, technology, finance.
@geoplace.bsky.social
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Publications: www.markgraham.space Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
@silvertje.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies, @appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social
Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
@unsocialtheory.bsky.social
Feral theorist. Anthropologist&sociologist by training, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; migrant&green rep, @ducu.bsky.social. If found, please return to a beach somewhere, preferably in SoCal.
@jkom.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer | University of Edinburgh | higher education markets, assetization, EdTech | econ sociology, STS, political economy Web: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/janja-komljenovic
@ludovico-rella.bsky.social
@GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
@maffie.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Cornell University | Labor Relations, Platform Work | Developer, Coauthor Project (coauthor.fly.dev)
@paulocepeda.bsky.social
Journalist immersed in journalism & digital communication teaching processes
@malthusjohn.bsky.social
Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity ♾️ AuDhD. Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm. Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more.. 🕺🎶🍞📸🤡
@dechunzhang.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Managing Editor @jceajournal.bsky.social, Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint & Social Media Editor @jvpcjournal.bsky.social. Website: http://dechunzhang.com
@lluisparcerisa.bsky.social
PhD in Sociology. Assistant Professor of Education Policy at @UniBarcelona.bsky.social. | Researching abt #Platforms #AI #Datafication #SAWA #TeachersWork #Privatization & #ComparativeEducation. https://linktr.ee/lluisparcerisa
@williamcallison.bsky.social
Political theorist and Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Political ecology and the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
@nicolestewart.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Director of the Digital Media & Everyday Life Lab in Texas (she/her). 🇨🇦 platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
@butnocigar.bsky.social
Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
@eostrinidad.bsky.social
@UCBerkeley Asst Prof of Educ Policy | @UChicago PhD Sociology & Human Dev | sociologist of education, policy, and org change
@emilebaril.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at @irms-concordia.bsky.social (IRMS) and @bridgdivides.bsky.social, new technologies, platform labour, food delivery, trucking and migration. York University PhD alum www.emilebaril.com
@vivaharehills.bsky.social
Writer of CYBERBOSS (Verso). Co-built Novara Media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Co-StreamArtNetwork. Co-digital gavagai. LTQ contributor 🍸🏳️🌈 http://c-gent.net/ https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
@aalemdar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at St. Francis College/ iPh.D. at the University of Missouri-Kansas City/ Political Economy/World-Ecology/Platform Capitalism/opinions are mine
@jessrauchberg.bsky.social
social media + digital culture expert. I write about labor + inequalities in the creator economy. hot takes are my own! www.jessrauchberg.com
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@geosaura.bsky.social
Prof. University of Barcelona | Politics of Education, Financialization, Digital Capitalism, STS
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@carwynmorris.bsky.social
Geographer of digital and China things Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics PI of European Research Council Project CHINA.EU Assistant Prof China Studies, Leiden University Fashion side hustle https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
Econ PhD @imperial. Visiting researcher at IFC and Cambridge. AI and networks in economics. www.prashantgarg.org
@adiray.bsky.social
Academic (Dr.), Geographer, Tinkerer, Blabberer, Writer. Testing this space. Interests: Tech | Work | Political Economies | Cities | Global Dev | Dissident Cultures | Friends and Community | Neurodivergence | Will block faceless bioless follows
@fast-capitalism.bsky.social
Journal devoted to analyzing the impact of information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in the 21st century. Bridges the social sciences and humanities. Welcomes disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. http://fastcapitalism.com
@piroskadora.bsky.social
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Associate Prof at the International Relations Department, Central European University, Vienna
@davidarditi.bsky.social
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
@seyfert.bsky.social
Professor of sociology with a focus on sociological theory, @uni-kiel.de, Germany Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory https://www.seyfert.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970 https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
@kavitaurbanist.bsky.social
Unruly geographer at the University of East Anglia. Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
@bierjess.bsky.social
Associate prof. of urban sociology Erasmus University Rotterdam Pro 🍉 ⚧️ 🏴☠️ PI: DIGIPORTS project, digitalization + racialization in maritime logistics Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
@linzhang.bsky.social
Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech https://linzhangweb.org/
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Platforms (digital & not), animation, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Super apps! Prof at Concordia University. Director of The Platform Lab. Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
@tomduterme.bsky.social
Phd student, ICHEC-UCLouvain Social Studies of Finance, economics of conventions
@loicriom.bsky.social
Researcher interested in Music, Tech and Finance. https://cv.hal.science/loicriom
@benfteresa.bsky.social
Associate Professor VCU Urban and Regional Studies & Planning, Co-founder and director, RVA Eviction Lab
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@jiegson.bsky.social
Human geographer researching on rental housing, regulation and financialization. Book review ed. at @housingtheory.bsky.social. Dept. of Urban studies, Malmö university & @iurmalmo.bsky.social https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=x-t1hugAAAAJ&hl=sv
@paullangley.bsky.social
Professor of Economic Geography, Durham, UK. Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social Finance, money, FinTech, and more. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@jamiepeck.bsky.social
Geographer at UBC, editor of EPA: Economy & Space; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
@urbanaute.bsky.social
Économie politique urbaine, UMR ASSEDIC (3949). ‘Au marché des métropoles’ aux @EEtaques (2022) et ‘L'empire urbain de la finance’ chez @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social (2023).
@closthilaire.bsky.social
Vanier Scholar | Phd Candidate @ UWaterloo. Critical urban planning, Housing, Financialization, Digital tech | She/her/hers
@burnsr77.bsky.social
AAAS S&TPF fellow, FRCGS, visiting prof @ Erlangen-Nuremberg Critical digital geographer, urban STS, runner, reader, writer, drinker of unhealthy amounts of tea
@knaaptime.com
planning & public policy prof @ UC Irvine | core dev @ PySAL & QuantEcon | urban social science & spatial data science | go terps
@karenpylai.bsky.social
associate professor of economic geography | deputy editor-in-chief @financeandspace.bsky.social | money & finance | fintech | data centres | financial centres | Asia
@joeshaw.bsky.social
Managing Director @urbanstudiesfoundation.org & Meatspace Press > urbanstudiesfoundation.org > meatspacepress.com
@ctwittekind.bsky.social
Anthropologist | Assistant Professor at Purdue | Postdoc at Yale CSEAS & Program in Agrarian Studies
@joncinnamon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. University of British Columbia Okanagan. digital geographies, GIS, health geographies, data studies, surveillance, cities
@fennaimara.bsky.social
Research fellow at UCL Geography researching the digitising state, urban infrastructure, and data justice. Currently working on Regional Futures and Digitalising Commons in Nairobi, Mumbai, and Guadalajara. (she/her) www.fennahoefsloot.com
@erinmcel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
@djanekerrigan.bsky.social
All about housing, urban planning PhD McGill University graduate. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, guest researcher at Leibniz IRS
@erintorkelson.bsky.social
UWC geographer, writing about debt, racial capitalism, and the social welfare state in South Africa.
@urbanstudiesfoundation.org
We provide grant funding for innovative research projects that advance the frontiers of urban knowledge. Follow for news & updates. Read more on our website: https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org
@justinkadi.bsky.social
Social scientist. Housing, inequality, political economy. Associate Editor International Journal of Housing Policy. Assistant Professor Dep. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Own views.
@bdrudder.bsky.social
Professor Urban Studies KU Leuven, Director KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute, Special Issues Editor Regional Studies, 🏔️🚵🏻
@nickbernards.bsky.social
Critical Political Economist -- Author: A critical history of poverty finance (http://bit.ly/3pEV7Cf); Fictions of financialization (http://bit.ly/3PUWzdR) -- Associate Prof. in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick. Views mine.
@finandsoc.bsky.social
Cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to interrogating the central role of finance in contemporary life. cambridge.org/core/journals/finance-and-society
@societyandspace.bsky.social
We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
@evertmeijers.bsky.social
Geographer and Planner interested in regional development @ Utrecht University, NL
@annebonds.bsky.social
Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Editor, Urban Geography. Mapping Racism & Resistance in Milwaukee County
@snmarkley.bsky.social
Studying racially uneven sub/urban development with GIS, maps, #rstats, #rspatial https://scottnmarkley.github.io
@vincentguermond.bsky.social
Lecturer/geographer Write about finance and debt, climate adaptation, social reproduction, and migration. Teach on platform/'green' capitalism. 🇵🇸
@benjaminpreis.com
Director, National Housing Crisis Task Force. Senior Research Fellow, Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. Landlords, urban networks, and wealth inequality. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him
@johnhoganmorris.bsky.social
Economic geographer 🗺 💰 Central banking, risk management & climate finance. Co-author (Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations
@twm.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Warwick University in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Data, visualisations, finance, housing and maps among other things.
@cedricdurand.bsky.social
@johannespetry.bsky.social
Political Economist | PI StateCapFinance project at Goethe University Frankfurt | https://www.johannespetry.com/
@mtfkear.bsky.social
Associate Prof in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at UArizona. Wanderer of financial borderscapes. Heat, housing and finance. Views my own.
@econhist-allday.bsky.social
Economic historian of U.S. cities. Interested in segregation, land use regulation, and affordability over the long run. Views expressed here are my own. Personal website at allisonshertzer.com.
@rogerjburrows.bsky.social
Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture. Prof at University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies & Hon Prof Fellow, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne & Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.
@michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
Human Geographer, Social Scientist, Teacher, Onetime Musician. Assistant professor @ Utrecht University
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social
Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
@michaelbourdon.bsky.social
PhD candidate Centre for International Studies (Ceri) Sciences Po Paris | alumnus ENS Ulm | Social Sciences and Politics of Startups in Togo & Ghana
@jessaloomis.bsky.social
Economic Geographer @ Newcastle University (UK) researching feminist finance, everyday (digital) economies, financial inclusion, housing 'love letters' & the politics of knowledge production // northeast (US) to North East (UK)
@dancohen.bsky.social
Critical urban and economic geographer studying the marketization of education and other social institutions (he/him). https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=S265d9kAAAAJ&hl=en
@marxist.af
At ⋂ of software/tech, cities, political economy, uneven dev, labor. Data centers, AI, climate. Obsidian/QGIS/R/LaTeX. (he/him) Geography Prof at UMBC; Visiting Prof at INRS.ca for AY24/25; Chair Urban Geography SG of AAG. SEA/ATL/DUB/ATX/PDX/BWI/MTL.
@reubenroseredwood.bsky.social
Professor of Geography & Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Victoria | Managing Editor, Dialogues in Human Geography
@devikanarayan.bsky.social
Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. some other stuff. Sociologist. https://www.devikanarayan.com/
@tinalaw.bsky.social
assistant professor of sociology @ ucdavis | northwestern phd | race, inequality, democracy, cities, AI, computational methodology https://tina-law.github.io/
@invisiblemapper.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Geography Urban Institute, Uni of Sheffield
@danielagabor.bsky.social
@bigdatasoc.bsky.social
Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
@andrewleyshon.bsky.social
Economic Geographer. Emeritus Professor@University of Nottingham, Senior Fellow@Nottingham Business School, NTU. Money and music, mainly. Mediocre cyclist. Is it a crisis or a boring change? 🏴
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
Political Economist at Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University | Sustainable Finance | Financialization | Politics of Investment | Pensions | http://nataschavanderzwan.com