Risk, Responsibility and Resentment: The Political Economy of Online Harassment - October 4, 2018

Dr. Kylie Jarrett. Dr. Jarrett is Head of the Department of Media Studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She teaches modules related to digital media, gender, political economy, and the digital mediation of identity. Her research focuses on the political economy of digital media with an emphasis on digital labor. She has published extensively about various commercial platforms including eBay, Facebook and Google. She is co-author of Google and the Culture of Search (Routledge, 2013), author of Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (Routledge, 2016), and co-author of #NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (MIT Press, 2018).