Brooke Erin Duffy, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Cornell University, where she holds appointments in the Department of Communication and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.
Research
My specific areas of research include digital and social media industries; gender, identity, and inequality; online self-presentation; and the impact of new technologies on work and labor.
In the Media
My research and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Vox, Quartz, The Guardian, and Times Higher Education, among others.
PLATFORMS & CULTURAL PRODUCTION
David Nieborg, Thomas Poell, and I are working on a book that explores how platforms—from Facebook to TikTok, Amazon to Tencent—are reconfiguring media and cultural production.
(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love (Yale University Press, 2017)
-Named one of the "Top Tech Books of 2017" by Wired.
-Included in Entrepreneur's list of "8 Inspiring Books on Women Overcoming the Challenges of Working in Tech."