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Dr

Kylie Jarrett

(she/her)

Full Professor of Information and Communication Studies

School of Information and Communication Studies

Orcid identifier0000-0002-2631-3430
  • Full Professor of Information and Communication Studies
    School of Information and Communication Studies
  • University College Dublin, School of Information and Communication Studies

BIO

I have been researching the internet since the 1990s with a focus on the political economy of the internet, including social media. I am author 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 also co-editor of the forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Digital Labor. I have also published extensively on various digital media platforms and digital media cultures such as Facebook, eBay, and podcasting.

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.

I am also editor-in-chief of Dialogues on Digital Society - a new journal from Sage.

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of South Australia