Dr. Floor Fiers (PhD, Northwestern University) is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), where they are part of the program group Corporate Communication.

Their research examines the role of digital technologies in simultaneously reproducing social inequality and opening a range of opportunities for individuals, communities, and organisations. Across their work, they regularly return to the setting of online labor and the gig economy, in which the tension between digital technologies as a source of opportunity and risk is particularly pronounced.

Before joining the University of Amsterdam, Floor completed their Ph.D. in the Media, Technology and Society (MTS) program at Northwestern University, under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Shaw and Dr. Eszter Hargittai. Floor’s dissertation was called “Chasing the Ideal and Making It Work: Pursuing Employment in the Remote Gig Economy.”