David B. Nieborg is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) with a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Information (iSchool). He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, Utrecht University, the Queensland University of Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David published on the game industry, apps and platform economics, and games journalism in academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, the European Journal for Cultural Studies, and Media, Culture and Society. Currently, he is working on a co-authored book ‘Platforms, Power, and Cultural Production’ (Polity, 2020).