Dr Craig Gent is an LSE Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Craig is an interdisciplinary scholar of digital media and culture, specialising in political theories of digital technology; class composition and digital labour; and the use of media to facilitate change, community and solidarity. He is also a writer and media practitioner, and prior to working in academia he worked for eleven years at Novara Media, where he was instrumental in building a supporter-funded professional news organisation from the ground up.

Craig is the author of Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work (Verso, 2014). It is currently under contract for publication into Korean and Spanish. In dialogue with the labour movement and other civil society actors, he regularly speaks on the consequences for workers of algorithmic management, AI and related technologies. Craig is also a member of the StreamArtNetwork, a glocal transdisciplinary collaboration that seeks to reclaim the internet through the creation of a new digital/critical culture. He is an affiliate of its founder member CDI-TV, based at Warwick’s Centre for Digital Inquiry.

Combining his experience in digital journalism and expertise in the challenges of algorithmic culture, Craig is a member of the Code Committee at Impress (the independent monitor for the press), and a co-optee of the Power and Accountability Committee at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, where he advises on its ‘responsible media’ funding priority. He is also a research affiliate of the Autonomy Institute.