Colten Meisner is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, supervised by Brooke Erin Duffy. His areas of focus include:

• digital labor & social media industries

• platform governance

• algorithmic media cultures

• the political economy of digital media

• identity, marginality & inequality

• qualitative research methods

His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Computers in Human Behavior, Media, Culture & Society, and Policy & Internet. He has received three top paper awards at annual meetings of the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association, and his research has been funded by the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality and the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. During his doctoral studies, he also completed two research internships in the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England.

Colten holds a B.S. and M.S. from the Department of Communication Studies at Texas Christian University and currently resides in upstate New York.