Greig de Peuter

Greig de Peuter serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies within the Faculty of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research critically examines labor dynamics in digital media and cultural production, focusing on worker exploitation, precarity, and collective responses across media, art, and creative sectors.

His educational foundation includes a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, preceded by a visiting scholar position at New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

De Peuter investigates infrastructures of mutual aid including worker co-operatives, unionization drives, and policy reforms through the SSHRC-funded Cultural Workers Organize collaboration. His co-authored books New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games establish foundational frameworks for understanding digital labor and gaming capitalism. Current research analyzes coworking spaces and alternative worker organizations as responses to systemic inequalities in cultural industries.

He co-founded collaborative initiatives including Critical U, the Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry, and Letters & Handshakes, which facilitate public scholarship through forums, symposiums, and exhibitions. As co-investigator on the SSHRC grant for Cultural Workers Organize, he directs research on global labor organizing while mentoring graduate students in political economy and cultural studies.