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Greig de Peuter researches the political economy of digital media and cultural production, with a focus on work, employment, and collective organizing. He is coauthor, with Nicole Cohen, of New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and, with Nick Dyer-Witheford, of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games.
His current research documents collective responses to exploitation, precarity, and inequalities within media, art, and other cultural sectors. The primary framework for this research is , a SSHRC-funded collaboration with Enda Brophy, Nicole Cohen, Kate Oakley, and Marisol Sandoval. Cultural Workers Organize has published on alternative worker organizations, union drives, policy reform proposals, worker co-operatives, and coworking spaces, among other infrastructures of mutual aid.
Alongside his research, Greig has frequently worked collaboratively on alternative education, public scholarship, and curatorial projects. He was a cofounder of Critical U, the Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry, and Letters & Handshakes. In these and other collective contexts, he has co-organized several public forums, symposiums, and exhibitions.
Prior to his current position, he was a visiting scholar at New York University in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. He received a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University.
Books
Cohen, N. and G. de Peuter (2020) . New York: Routledge.
Dyer-Witheford, N. and G. de Peuter (2009) . Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Coté, R. Day, and G. de Peuter, eds. (2007) . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Kline, S., N. Dyer-Witheford, and G. de Peuter (2003) Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Journal articles
de Peuter, G. and C. Young (2019) “” Television & New Media 20(8): 747-755.
Cohen, N. and G. de Peuter (2018) “.” Political Economy of Communication 6(2): 3-24.
de Peuter, G., N. Cohen, and F. Saraco (2017) “.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 20(6): 687-706.
de Peuter, G. (2014) “Beyond the Model Worker: Surveying a Creative Precariat.” Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 6: 263-284.
de Peuter, G. (2011) “” Journal of Communication Inquiry 35(4): 417-425.
de Peuter, G. and N. Dyer-Witheford (2010) “.” Affinities 3: 30-56.
Book chapters
de Peuter, G. (forthcoming) “.” In J. Compton, N. Dyer-Witheford, A. Grzyb, and A. Hearn, eds. Organizing Equality: Global Struggles in an Age of Right-Wing Ascendancy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Cohen, N. and G. de Peuter (2018) “‘I Work at VICE Canada and I Need a Union’: Organizing Digital Media.” In S. Ross and L. Savage, eds. Labour Under Attack: Anti-unionism in Canada, 114-128. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood.
de Peuter, G. (2015) “Online Games and Counterplay.” In P.H. Ang and R. Mansell, eds. The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
de Peuter, G. and N. Cohen (2015) “Emerging Labour Politics in Creative Industries.” In K. Oakley and J. O’Connor, eds. The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries, 305-318. London: Routledge.
Brophy, E. and G. de Peuter (2014) “Labours of Mobility: Communicative Capitalism and the Smartphone Cybertariat.” In A. Herman, J. Hadlaw, and T. Swiss, eds. Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries, 60-84. New York: Routledge.
de Peuter, G. (2012) “Level Up: Video Games Production in Canada.” In I. Wagman and P. Urquhart, eds. Cultural Industries.ca: Making Sense of Media in a Digital Age, 77-93. Toronto: Lorimer.
Editorial projects
Young, C. and G. de Peuter, eds. (2019) “” Television & New Media 20(8): 747-861.
Letters & Handshakes, ed. (2017) “,” The Blackwood 01 (July). Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga.
Letters & Handshakes, ed. (2016) . Letters & Handshakes.
de Peuter, G., N. Cohen, and E. Brophy, eds. (2015) “.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique13(2): 329-605.
Letters & Handshakes, ed. (2014) Precarious: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge. Waterloo: Robert Langen Art Gallery.
Magazine articles and other publications
Cohen, N. and G. de Peuter (2019) “.” Notes from Below.
de Peuter, G. (2017) “.” STIR 19, 12-15.
Cohen, N. and G. de Peuter (2015) “.” Frieze 170 (April), 25-26.
de Peuter, G., N. Cohen, and E. Brophy (2012) “,” Briarpatch, Nov./Dec., 6-9.
Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Pathways Beyond Precarity in the Cultural and Creative Industries: Sustainable Livelihoods and Cultures of Solidarity.” 2016-21.
Exhibition of the Year Award (Thematic), Ontario Association of Art Galleries. I stood before the source, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, Oct. 16-Dec. 3. 2016. Curated by Letters & Handshakes (a collaboration of G. de Peuter and C. Shaw). 2017.
Award for Excellence in Labour Reporting, Canadian Association of Journalists/CWA Canada. For G. de Peuter, N. Cohen, and E. Brophy, “Interns, Unite (You Have Nothing to Lose—Literally),” Briarpatch, Nov./Dec., 2012. 2013.
Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Flexible Workforces Respond to the Creative Economy: The Recomposition of Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity.” 2011-14.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Union Organizing in the Global Cultural Economy.” 2010-12. (Declined)
- Political Economy of Communication and Culture
- Introduction to Creative Industries
- Remaking Work in a Digital Age
- Work and Cultural Industries
- Video Game Studies
- Network Cultures
I welcome inquiries from prospective graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.