Hi, I’m Craig Gent. I’m a writer, researcher and journalist based in Leeds, Yorkshire.

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Digital society, labour and power

I’m a scholar of digital media and culture, and the author of Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work (Verso Books).

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Media, culture and politics

I have over ten years’ experience as a media practitioner. For eleven years, I was a senior editor and journalist at Novara Media, where I was a director.

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Events and keeping in touch

Keep in touch via my Substack mailing list.

Upcoming events include
  • 30 January. Leeds. Cyberboss reading group. Leeds University Business School.
  • 13 February. Oslo. Nordic AI Union Summit. NITO, Finansforbundet & Negotia.
  • 14 February. Brussels. Cyborg Workers 2.0 conference. ETUI.
  • 25 February. Sheffield. Cyberboss book talk. Digital Societies Network (hosted by Information School X Management School), University of Sheffield.
  • 26 February. Norwich. Cyberboss launch event. Caracol Books.
  • 5 March. Cambridge. Cyberboss book talk. Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.
  • 26 March. Leeds. Cyberboss book talk. Leeds TUC.
  • 31 May. London. Power of Big Tech panel [TBC]. Media Democracy Festival.

Recent work, in all its diversity

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