Books

Gent, C. (2024) Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work, New York and London: Verso (under contract for translation into Korean and Spanish).

Other publications

Gent, C. (2025) ‘Under the Scan Gun: Algorithmic Worker Management in English Coal Country’, Logic(s) Magazine 23, 76-82.

Gent, C. (2024) ‘Book review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power’, Work, Employment and Society, 39(2), 516-517.

Gent, C. and Østbø Kuldova, T. (2024) ‘On Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work: Craig Gent interviewed by Tereza Østbø Kuldova’, Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 8(2), 5-12.

Gent, C. (2024) ‘Manifesto Review: AI and Work’, The Autonomy Institute.

Gent, C. (2023) ‘No, ‘Transparency’ Won’t Stop Amazon Being a Crappy Employer’, Novara Media.

Gent, C. (2020) ‘There is power in the movement: Organised labour and the conquest of production’ (review of Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav), Verso Blog.

Gent, C. (2020) ‘How Do We Solve a Problem Like Amazon?’, Novara Media (translated into eight further languages).

Gent, C. (2020) ‘When Logistics Runs Out of Time’, Novara Media.

Gent, C. and Walker, M. (2018) ‘Alternative media: a new factor in electoral politics?’ in D. Wring et al (eds.) Political Communication in Britain: Polling, Campaigning and Media in the 2017 General Election, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 117-130.

Gent, C. (2018) The Politics of Algorithmic Management: Class Composition and Everyday Struggle in Distribution Work [PhD thesis], University of Warwick.

Gent, C. (2015) ‘Is the autonomists' notion of the ‘social factory’ still relevant?’, Studies in Social and Political Thought 24, 65-78.

Gent, C. (2015) ‘With our Backs to the Future’, Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 11 (1-2), 49-60.

Beck, M. and Gent, C. (2014) ‘Interview with Costas Lapavitsas, author of Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All’, Studies in Social and Political Thought, 23, 3-1.

Craig’s research combines practical and theoretical engagement with digital media technologies and their uses to explore themes of power, control, (inter)subjectivity, contestation and solidarity. His work aims to intervene in the technological rationalities of informational capitalism and to locate agency and solidarities within digital media and culture across two distinct but interconnected strands.

The first strand questions the practice of control and agency in algorithmic society. Craig’s longest-standing research interest has been the political phenomenology of computationally-mediated work, with particular attention to screenic media, real-time data streams, and the politics of the interface. Craig wrote his PhD on the politics of algorithmic management at the University of Warwick’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies between 2014 and 2018. More recently, he published his first book Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work with Verso in 2024. Cyberboss was covered by The Majority Report, Computer Weekly, In These Times, New Books in Digital Humanities, Jacobin, Ten Thousand Posts and other outlets. Craig is active in ongoing public conversations about the ethical and political stakes of AI and algorithmic management. He has been consulted on workplace surveillance technologies by the UK Department for Business and Trade and was a keynote speaker at the inaugural Nordic AI–Union Summit.

The second strand of Craig’s research draws on over a decade as a media practitioner operating amidst the echoes of earlier interventions (and inventions) of tactical media, alternative media, radical publishing and citizen journalism. It investigates innovative uses of livestream technologies to remix the political, performed and mundane in pursuit of ‘hybrid togetherness’ founded on communities (rather than audiences) and solidarity (rather than allyship). Craig is an affiliate of CDI-TV, based at the Centre for Digital Inquiry at the University of Warwick, and an active member of the pan-European StreamArtNetwork. He is currently working with Dr Michael Dieter and Dr Carolina Bandinelli on an edited digital collection, provisionally titled Explorations in Hybrid Togetherness, which reflects on livestreaming as an epistemic and networked practice, and aims to be a contribution to expanded publishing in its own right.

Craig is a member of the Association of Internet Researchers, Chartered Institute of Journalists, and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, among other bodies.

Dr Gent’s teaching in the Department includes Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications; Modern Campaigning Politics; and Research in Media and Communications: Principles and Practice. He also supervises MSc dissertations.

As in his research, Dr Gent’s teaching interests span social sciences and the arts and humanities. Prior to joining LSE, Dr Gent had taught in the University of Warwick’s Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Department of Sociology, and on the English and Journalism programme at Coventry University.