<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br>My name is Andrew McKinney. I'm a sociology PhD candidate and
Digital Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center and Community Facilitator at
the City Tech OpenLab. I am also part of the <a href="http://digitallabor.commons.gc.cuny.edu" target="_blank">Digital Labor Working Grou</a><a>p</a> at the CUNY Graduate Center along with Karen Gregory, Kara Van Cleaf, and Tom Buechele. My twitter handle is <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewgmckinney" target="_blank">@andrewgmckinney</a>.<br><br></div>My
dissertation is an examination of the role that sport fan labor plays
in the political economy of the internet, with a particular focus on the
way in which Silicon Valley start-up language and ideology has shaped
the platforms that capture fan activity as labor. I'll be presenting a
paper that examines the way that fan labor, or what I'm calling in the
paper "engaged audience labor," fits into the ideology of "disruption."
This will add to some previous work I've done teasing where labor lies
in the the ideology of disruption, which you can read <a href="http://digitallabor.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/06/16/the-labor-of-disruption/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br><br></div>Looking forward to the conference and meeting everyone!<br clear="all"><br></div>Andrew<br><div>-- <br>Andrew McKinney<br>Digital Fellow<div>CUNY Graduate Center</div><div>OpenLab Community Facilitator <br>New York City College of Technology, CUNY<br>Doctoral Candidate<br>Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center<br><br></div>
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