Dr Kylie Jarrett

Biography

I coordinate the BA Digital Media programme and teach modules related to digital media, gender and political economy. My research area is the political economy of digital media and in particular the commercial Web. I have published extensively about various commercial platforms including eBay, Facebook and Google. With colleagues Ken Hillis and Michael Petit, I have explored the commercial search industry, published in the book Google and the Culture of Search (Routledge, 2013). I am also author of Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (Routledge, 2016) applying Marxist feminist theories of domestic work to understand the practice of consumer labour. My media expertise is in user experiences of social media, the politics of the commercial Web and gender issues relating to work in digital media industries.

Research Interest

Media Studies