myCSUSM
Brian Dolber, Ph.D.
Email: bdolber@csusm.edu
Phone: (760) 750 - 8206
Office: SBSB 2205
Areas of Expertise & Scholarship
Political Economy of Media, Labor and Technology, Media Policy, Platform Labor & Media History.
My scholarship examines the intersections of media, labor, technology, and the policymaking process in historical and contemporary contexts. I am particularly interested in the rise of the gig economy, and the ways in which platform workers are developing new models of organizing using digital technologies and media.
My Favorite Courses to Teach:
MDIA 303 Histories of Media Technology, MDIA 460 Political Economy of Media, MDIA 465 Media Policy in the U.S. & MDIA 466 Digital Policymaking
Hobbies
Playing the drums, travel, dadding
Publications
- The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence
- Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era
- Building Class Power in the Platform Age: (Re-) Re-Reading Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. Work Organisation, Labour, and Globalisation.
- Organizing at the Digital Water Cooler: Rideshare Drivers United's Social Media Strategy and the Challenge to Surveillance Capitalism. South Atlantic Quarterly, 122 (4): 779–793.
- Blindspots and Blurred Lines: Dallas Smythe, the Audience Commodity, and the Transformation of Labor in the Digital Age. Sociology Compass, 10 (9), 747-755.
