Jean-Christophe Plantin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching focus on the infrastructural power of tech giants, the platformization of cybersecurity, gaming, and library data, and the invisible labor of cleaning data infrastructure. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in Communication and Information Studies from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France.