Alex Rosenblat, a Data & Society affiliate, is an ethnographer who studies how people experience technology. Rosenblat is the author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, and works as the head of marketplace policy, fairness, and research at Uber. She is also a research fellow at McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, where her projects include those on coercive consent, privacy loss, and bureaucratic inequalities in trusted infrastructures. Her additional work on the socialities of crypto has received support from Paradigm.xyz’s Policy Lab Research Hub. She was previously a senior researcher at Data & Society, and a 2019 fellow at the Aspen Institute Tech Policy Hub. 

Rosenblat’s writing has appeared in media outlets including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Globe and Mail. Her research has received attention worldwide and has been covered by outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and the BBC. Her prize-winning work has been published in scholarly and professional publications including the International Journal of Communication and the Columbia Law Review.