Harry Browne

Harry Browne is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media at Technological University Dublin. An experienced journalist and researcher, he is the author of three books:  Hammered by the Irish  (Counterpunch/AK Press 2008),  The Frontman  (Verso, 2013, with other editions in Spanish and Italian) and  Public Sphere  (Cork University Press, 2018).  His journalism is anthologized in  Great Irish Reportage  (Penguin Ireland, 2013), and he is active in campaigning for peace and social justice.

Harry Browne is completing a book, Meaningful: Disinformation, social media and the imperatives of the algorithm. It explores how platform capitalism has distorted our information – but also how popular and scholarly texts on ‘disinformation’ have addressed that distortion with incomplete, propagandistic narratives. Combining insights from psychology, tech studies and critical theory, it proposes an aesthetic approach that rescues information and sociability from the clutches of algorithmic logic.