Brett Caraway

Professor Brett Caraway

Degrees & Institutions:   PhD University of Texas at Austin; MA University of Texas at Austin

Recent Courses: Introduction to Digital Media; Video Game Studies; Communication, Technology, and Society

Selected Publications (max. 15): Audience Labor in the New Media Environment: A Marxian Revisiting of the Audience Commodity, Media, Culture & Society; Survey of File Sharing Culture, International Journal of Communication; Online Labour Markets: An Inquiry of oDesk Providers, Work, Organisation, Labour and Globalisation.

Website/CV Link: www.copygrounds.com

Research Interests: Prof. Caraway studies the relations between digital media, human labor, and cultural production. His work investigates these relations through the analysis of the myriad conflicts which have arisen in the realm of new media systems.

Research Areas: new media, digital labor, intellectual property, economics, cultural studies, and the history of communication technologies.