Center for Information Technology Policy

CITP Seminar – Visibility in the Creator Economy: Navigating the Promises and Precarities of Platform Labor

Amid mounting legal and financial strife, mainstream platform companies—from Meta and YouTube to TikTok and Twitch–are doubling down on their idealistic framing of the digital “Creator Economy.” But the image of social media as an entrepreneurial Promised Land is belied by the precarious, even pe