Brooke Erin Duffy

Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy is an award-winning scholar, author, and associate professor at Cornell University, where she studies work and labor in the social media age. She is the author or co-author of three books, including (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender and Aspirational Labor in the Social Media Economy (Yale University Press, 2017), which Wired named as one of the "Top Tech Books of 2017." In addition to her academic publications, she has disseminated her research to a broader audience through popular writing in The Atlantic, Vox, Salon, Business Insider, Wired, and Quartz, among others. In 2024, she joined Forbes as a regulator contributor. Duffy is currently writing a book on visibility in the creator economy.