Kylie Jarrett is Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at UCD. She has been researching the internet since the 1990s with a focus on the political economy of the commercial Web, including social media.

She is author Digital Labor (2022, Polity), Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016, Routledge). She is also co-author of #NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (2019, MIT Press) and Google and the Culture of Search (2013, Routledge). With Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, and Rafael Grohmann, I am also co-editor of the forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Digital Labor. She has also extensively on various digital media platforms and digital media cultures such as Facebook, eBay, and podcasting. Her current research focus is platform work and digital labour with an interest in using social reproduction theory to explore that nature of this labour holistically, including its policy environment. She is also researching platform traders with a forthcoming co-authored book on online craft retail platform Etsy in production. She is also editor-in-chief of Dialogues on Digital Society – a new journal from Sage.