• Sociologist, currently at LSE, London.
• Ethnography research on practices of resistance.
• Published a book on work in call centers, and is currently researching workers’ activism at Deliveroo and Twitch.

Camille Alloing (@CaddeReputation)

• Associate Professor in communication studies, University of Poitiers.
• Upcoming book on affective digital labor, or how emotions and affections generate economic value.

Kylie Jarrett (@kylzjarrett)

• Political economist at Maynooth University, Ireland.
• Recent book on feminism, labour and digital media ("the digital housewife").
• Currently researching work on platforms especially in Dublin area.

Marie-Anne Dujarier

• Sociologist of work, University Diderot Paris.
• Authored a prominent book on consumer’s work (2008)
• Convenor of a working group on digital platforms & work in Paris.

Sébastien Broca

• Sociologist / communication scientist at University of Paris 8.
• Research on free software developers, influence of free software movement.
• Exploring linkages with digital labor and diversity of definitions of digital labor.

Gina Neff (@ginasue)

• Recently joined the Oxford Internet Institute.
• Introduced the influential notion of “venture labor”; new book on self-tracking.
• Ongoing project on workers’ collaborative sense-making and creativity.

Ursula Huws (@COSTIS1202)

• Authoritative books on the "cybertariat" and work in the global digital economy.
• Coordinated the European COST action Virtual Work.
• Current empirical work on scale and dynamics of the gig economy in Europe.

Patricia Vendramin

• Sociologist of work, University of Louvain-la-Neuve.
• Studies workers’ organization and change in employment in the digital economy.
• Is interested in developing new research at meso (sectoral) level.

Yann Moulier-Boutang (@boutangyann)

• Major contribution to the notion of cognitive capitalism, in particular as related to artificial intelligence and human labor.
• Other topics: conflict, regulation, and the slavery-to-wage transition.
• Current work to detect emergence of questions and topics in Reddit.

Nikos Smyrnaios (@smykos)

• Communication studies, University of Toulouse.
• New book on the political economy of tech giants ("the GAFAM").
• Another topic is the transformation of journalism in the digital era.

Sarah Abdelnour

• Sociologist of work, PI of the CAPLA research project on platform capitalism.
• Studies platforms as subcontracting devices, and their effects on employment.
• Has researched the French “auto-entrepreneur” (a case of self-employment) regime.

Jen Schradie (@schradie)

• Sociologist, at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Toulouse.
• Has studied the links between digital activism, inequalities, and the digital divide.
• Upcoming Harvard University Press book, she discusses digital labor and politics.

Antonio Casilli (@AntonioCasilli)

• Sociologist at Telecom ParisTech, studies social conflict and digital rights.
• Has published books in digital sociology, a recent one providing an overview (in French) of the field of digital labour.
• Working on a new book on digital labour, and a digital platform labour research chair.

Mark Graham (@geoplace)

• Economic geographer, at the Oxford Internet Institute.
• Studies the gig economy in the Global South.
• Writes about global networks of solidarity, competition and collaboration between workers.

Paola Tubaro (@ptubaro)

• Economic sociologist, at CNRS-Paris.
• Current research on the collaborative economy of internet platforms – mapping values, norms and life trajectories.
• New research: digital labor and ‘foodtech’ sector; collaborative online health communities.

Karen Gregory (@claudiakincaid)

• Sociologist at the University of Edinburgh, where she teaches and researches digital sociology.
• Studies emotional labor and entrepreneurialism.
• Research on forms of solidarity in the ‘sharing economy’.

Tiziana Terranova (@synthesiastica)

• Theorist focussing on the effects of ICTs on work and commons
• Influential research on free labour in online cultural industries.
• (Not able to attend in person because caught in an anti-Uber taxi strike, which is the ultimate irony...).

Carlo Vercellone

• Economist at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
• Several publications on cognitive capitalism and knowledge economy.