A. Aneesh is Executive Director of the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and Professor of Global Studies and Sociology. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology, Senior Director of the Center for International Education, and Director of the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In the early 2000s, he taught in the Science, Technology, and Society program at Stanford University, where he completed his formulation of algocracy, a distinctive system of organizational governance that operates beyond conventional bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based mechanisms. His work helped pioneer the study of algorithmic governance in the social sciences. He is the author of Virtual Migration (Duke University Press, 2006) and Neutral Accent (Duke University Press, 2015). His forthcoming book, Beyond Membership: A Theory of Modular Citizenship for a Programmable World, will be published by MIT Press in May 2027.
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