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Matthew Crain

Matthew Crain’s research, writing, and teaching focus on the political economy of media, advertising, and consumer surveillance.

In his book How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet (2021), Crain gives digital surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of internet advertising in the 1990s. (Read the book’s )

Crain’s work shows how the modern “” was not inevitable and charts a path toward rebuilding a privacy-friendly internet. The book has been favorably reviewed by the , , , and .

Other publications include scholarship about data brokers (New Media & Society), political manipulation (Journal of Information Policy), and media ownership (International Journal of Communication). Crain has written articles for , , and , and has been interviewed by , , , and

At Miami, Crain teaches courses such as Media Industries, Communication Technology, and Media and the Data Society. Crain received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his master’s degree from DePaul University. Previously he taught at Queens College, City University of New York.