David Nieborg


Associate Professor, on Academic Leave (July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024)

David Nieborg

Associate Professor, on Academic Leave (July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024)
  • Office: BL 632, 649

David B. Nieborg is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Information. Currently, he is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute and a Residential Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David published on the game industry, apps and platform economics, and games journalism in academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Internet Policy Review, and Media, Culture and Society. He is the co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2021) and Mainstreaming and Games Journalism (MIT Press, 2023).

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