Rachel O’Dwyer will be joining the Department of Sociology as an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow in Oct 2015 under the mentorship of Dr. Aphra Kerr.
Rachel has received a one year postdoctoral fellowship to turn her PhD into a book manuscript. Her PhD (TCD:2014) focused on the political economy and historical development of mobile networks and interrogated the traditional dichotomy in theory of the commons and capital. Her supervisor was Dr. Linda Doyle, director of CONNECT/CVTR, and the external examiners were Dr. Tiziana Terranova (Naples) and Dr. Aphra Kerr.
Rachel O’Dwyer is currently a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin where she teaches modules on the M.Phil in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and the MSc in Interactive Digital Media. She is the leader of the Dublin Art and Technology Association and the initiator and lead curator of openhere, a festival and conference on the digital commons held in the Science Gallery Dublin in 2014.
She has published on digital media, political economy of communications, and media art and culture in journals such as Fibreculture, Spheres, and Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organisation, as well as book chapters – most recently Institute of Network Culture’s Moneylab Reader (2015) and Routledge’s Companion to Remix Studies (Winter 2014). She is a regular contributor to Neural magazine www.neural.it. and the founding editor in chief of the open access peer-reviewed journal Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture.
See some of her publications on academia.edu