Chair and Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology; Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu is the Chair and Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published more than 130 research articles and chapters, and 12 books in English and Chinese including Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition (University of Illinois P, 2016), World Factory in the Information Age (Guangxi Normal UP, 2013), and Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009). Recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy, he collects workers’ voices and conducts case studies in various Asian contexts, while promoting labour sustainability in digital economies and advocating for socioeconomic change through AI for development (AI4) programmes.