Faculty profile
David Nieborg
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Latest funding
- $98,892
Extracting Intimacy: FemTech, Surveillance, and Sovereignty
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $69,170
Worker-Owned Intersectional Digital Platforms: Action Research with Delivery and Tech Workers in Brazil and Argentina
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $28,550
The Impact of Digital Platforms on Canadian Media Production
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Extracting Intimacy: FemTech, Surveillance, and Sovereignty
Principal investigators: Pybus, Jennifer R.
Worker-Owned Intersectional Digital Platforms: Action Research with Delivery and Tech Workers in Brazil and Argentina
Principal investigators: Grohmann, Rafael
Keywords: worker-owned platforms; platform labour; intersectionality; Latin America; platform studies; Brazil; Argentina; delivery workers; tech workers
The Impact of Digital Platforms on Canadian Media Production
Principal investigators: Nieborg, David
Keywords: media work; cultural production; platform labour; media industries; platforms; media policy; political economy; social media; platform governance; cultural citizenship
Global Media and Internet Concentration Project
Keywords: telecom; internet & media industries; digital platforms; digital economy; internet regulation & governance; political economy; cultural industries school; media economics; public policy
Leveraging superdata's super data: exploring industry diversity in the app economy
Principal investigators: Nieborg, David
Keywords: political economy; industry diversity; games; games industry; apps; app store; app studies; platform studies
The platformization of cultural production
Principal investigators: Nieborg, David
Keywords: platforms; platformization; cultural production; globalization; political economy; software studies; business studies; games; journalism
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