Jen Schradie

After a career as a documentary filmmaker, Jen Schradie received her PhD from the University of California (Sociology Department), and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Her research areas span the digital divide, digital activism, and digital labor. With a sociological lens, her research challenges claims of either utopic digital democracy or dystopic internet villains.  Schradie’s research is at the intersection of stratification and inequality, communication media and technology, labor and social movements, as well as political sociology and public policy. She finds that societal structures of class inequality, bureaucratic institutions, and political ideology can all drive internet use. Her current comparative project focuses on gender and class differences in the start-up economy in France and the U.S., and another examines online hate speech against Muslims. Incorporating qualitative and quantitative methods with both online and offline data, Schradie contextualizes disparities and variation of participation in digital society.

Scientific Responsabilities

• Chair of the Scientific Panel on AI and Economic Inclusion, International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)
• Co-funder of the European Network on Digital Labour (ENDL / INDL), multidisciplinary network of researchers from different fields (media studies, geography, sociology, law, economics)
• Expert List Member, International Communication Association – Activism, Communication and Social Justice
• Affiliate, Center on Digital Culture and Society (CDCS), Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2019)
• Advisory Committee Member, The National Academies of Sciences - Computational Social Science (2019)

Latest Presentations

• "Can a decentralised web protect the users of digital democracy?", Web3 & Digital Democracy, McCourt Institute, Paris, 15 November 2022.
• Unfinished Live 2022 "The Future of Digital Governance", Breakout Session “Web3 & Online Content”, The Shed, New York, 21 September 2022.
• Book presentation (The Revolution that Wasn't. How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives), SENSE Seminar, Orange - Research Division, 13 September 2022.
• "Startup Nation: French Tech and the Welfare State Paradox", ASA 2022 Meeting, Los Angeles, 6 August.

• Jen Schradie. L’illusion de la démocratie numérique. Internet est-il de droite ?. EPFL Press, pp.468, 2022, Quanto, 9782889154548. ⟨hal-03820519⟩
• Jen Schradie. Digital Spaces: Online Safety and Offline Structures in France and the U.S.. A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention, Spector Books; Canadian Centre for Architecture, pp.191-203, 2021, 9783959055079. ⟨hal-03823802⟩
• Jen Schradie, Liam Bekirsky. The Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era. Deana A. Rohlinger; Sarah Sobieraj. The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology, Oxford University Press, pp.567-585, 2021, Oxford Handbooks, 9780197510636. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197510636.013.33⟩. ⟨hal-03823266⟩
• Jen Schradie. Context, class, and community: a methodological framework for studying labor organizing and digital unionizing. Information, Communication and Society, 2021, 24 (5), pp.700-716. ⟨10.1080/1369118X.2021.1874477⟩. ⟨hal-03820646⟩
• Jen Schradie, Emanuele Ferragina, Marta Pasqualini, Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi, et al.. L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.4382685⟩. ⟨hal-03386552⟩
• Jen Schradie, Emanuele Ferragina, Marta Pasqualini, Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi, et al.. The Covid Year in France: A Tale of Two Lockdowns. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.4383162⟩. ⟨hal-03386551⟩
• Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, et al.. La France confinée. Anciennes et nouvelles inégalités. Marc Lazar; Guillaume Plantin; Xavier Ragot. Le monde d'aujourd'hui, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.95-116, 2020, 9782724626704. ⟨hal-03203725⟩
• Jen Schradie. “Give me Liberty or Give me Covid-19”: Anti-lockdown protesters were never Trump puppets. Communication and the Public, 2020, 5 (3-4), pp.126-128. ⟨10.1177/2057047320969433⟩. ⟨hal-03820752⟩
• Jen Schradie. The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide. Political Power and Social Theory, 2020, 37, pp.81 - 101. ⟨10.1108/S0198-871920200000037005⟩. ⟨hal-03380880⟩
• Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Mirna Safi, et al.. The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2020, 68, pp.100508 - 100512. ⟨10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100508⟩. ⟨hal-03203732⟩
• Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, et al.. Living through Lockdown: Social Inequalities and Transformations during the COVID-19 Crisis in France. 2020. ⟨hal-03203721⟩
• Nicolas Sauger, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. La vie après le confinement : retour à la normale ou quête d'un nouveau cap ?. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3897359⟩. ⟨hal-03393048⟩
• Nicolas Sauger, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. Life after lockdown: Getting back on track or charting a new course?. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3897226⟩. ⟨hal-03393046⟩
• Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier Godechot, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, et al.. When life revolves around the home: Work and sociability during the lockdown. 2020, pp.10. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3839312⟩. ⟨hal-03393054⟩
• Emanuele Ferragina, Carlo Barone, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. Dans l’oeil du cyclone : La société française après un mois de confinement. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3784110⟩. ⟨hal-03393051⟩
• Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier Godechot, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, et al.. La vie entre quatre murs : travail et sociabilité en temps de confinement. 2020, pp.10. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3839288⟩. ⟨hal-03393052⟩
• Emanuele Ferragina, Carlo Barone, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. In the eye of the hurricane: French society a month into the lockdown. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3783990⟩. ⟨hal-03393049⟩
• Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Mirna Safi, et al.. Lockdown for All, Hardship for Some: Insights from the First Wave of the CoCo Project. 2020, pp.6. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3757870⟩. ⟨halshs-03070206⟩
• Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Mirna Safi, et al.. Confinement pour tous, épreuve pour certains. Les résultats de la première vague d'enquête du projet CoCo. 2020, ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3757813⟩. ⟨halshs-03070063⟩
• Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, et al.. Living through Lockdown: Social Inequalities and Transformations during the COVID-19 Crisis in France. 2020. ⟨hal-03099647⟩
• Jen Schradie. The Revolution That Wasn’t. Harvard University Press, pp.416, 2019, 9780674972339. ⟨hal-03222282⟩
• Jen Schradie. There is a massive class and race-based chasm in digital activism. 2019. ⟨hal-03392572⟩
• Jen Schradie. Debate: The ‘gilets jaunes’ movement is not a Facebook revolution. 2018. ⟨hal-03392746⟩
• Jen Schradie. Book review "Self-Tracking", Gina Neff, Dawn Nefus, Cambridge (MA), The MIT Press, 2016. Revue française de sociologie, 2018, 59 (3), pp.587-590. ⟨10.3917/rfs.593.0559⟩. ⟨hal-03822939⟩
• Jen Schradie. Internet contribue souvent à renforcer les inégalités. 2018. ⟨hal-03621694⟩
• Jen Schradie. The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action. Social Problems, 2018, 65 (1), pp.51-74. ⟨10.1093/socpro/spx042⟩. ⟨hal-03820945⟩
• Jen Schradie. Moral Monday Is More Than a Hashtag: The Strong Ties of Social Movement Emergence in the Digital Era. Social Media + Society, 2018, 4 (1), pp.1-13. ⟨10.1177/2056305117750719⟩. ⟨hal-03821208⟩
• Jen Schradie. Big Data is Too Small: Research Implications of Class Inequality for Online Data Collection. June Deery; Andrea Press. Media and Class. TV, Film, and Digital Culture, Routledge, 2017, 9781138229792. ⟨hal-03823826⟩
• Jen Schradie. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics. Stephen Coleman; Deen Freelon. Handbook of Digital Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.67-84, 2016, 9781786435637. ⟨hal-03823894⟩
• Jen Schradie. Political Ideology, Social Media, and Labor Unions: Using the Internet to Reach the Powerful, Not Mobilize the Powerless. International Journal of Communication, 2015, 9 (2015), pp.21. ⟨hal-03821277⟩
• Jen Schradie. The Gendered Digital Production Gap: Inequalities of Affluence. Communication and Information Technologies Annual, 9, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.185-213, 2015, Studies in Media and Communications, 978-1-78441-454-2. ⟨10.1108/S2050-206020150000009008⟩. ⟨hal-03822720⟩
• Jen Schradie. Book review: "Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman MIT Press. 2012". Social Forces, 2014, 94 (3), pp.e89-e89. ⟨10.1093/sf/sou075⟩. ⟨hal-03823028⟩
• Jen Schradie. The digital production gap in Great Britain: How sampling, mechanisms and theory matter with digital inequality?. Information, Communication and Society, 2013, 16 (6), pp.989-998. ⟨10.1080/1369118X.2013.799305⟩. ⟨hal-03821333⟩
• Jen Schradie. The trend of class, race and ethnicity in social media inequality: Who still cannot afford to blog?. Information, Communication and Society, 2012, 15 (4), pp.555-571. ⟨10.1080/1369118X.2012.665939⟩. ⟨hal-03821463⟩
• Jen Schradie. The digital production gap: The digital divide and Web 2.0 collide. Poetics, 2011, 39 (2), pp.145-168. ⟨10.1016/j.poetic.2011.02.003⟩. ⟨hal-03821539⟩