DrKylie Jarrett

I have been researching the internet since the 1990s with a focus on the political economy of the commercial Web, including social media. I am currently PI of the LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem project (ERC-funded 2026-2030).

I am author of Digital Labor (2022, Polity), Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016, Routledge). I am also co-author of #NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (2019, MIT Press) and Google and the Culture of Search (2013, Routledge). With Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, and Rafael Grohmann, I am co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Labor (2025). I have also published extensively on various digital media platforms and digital media cultures such as Facebook, eBay, and podcasting. I am also editor-in-chief of Dialogues on Digital Society - a new journal from Sage.

My current research focus is platform work and digital labour but I also have expertise in the analysis of social media and expressions of gender and sexuality in that context. I also am researching platform traders with a forthcoming co-authored book on online craft retailer Etsy in production.

Media enquiries: Digital gig economy; digital labour