PJ Rey is a sociology PhD student at the University of Maryland. He is a founding editor of the Cyborgology blog and co-founder of the Theorizing the Web conferences. His work examimes how capitalism is shaping and is shaped by the Web as well as the socio-political implications of treating the Web as space.
PJ Rey is a sociology PhD student at the University of Maryland. He is a founding editor of the Cyborgology blog and co-founder of the Theorizing the Web conferences. His work examimes how capitalism is shaping and is shaped by the Web as well as the socio-political implications of treating the Web as space.
His MA paper, "Alienation, Exploitation, and Social Media" has recently be reworked into an article for the American Behavioral Scientist. PJ was also a lead organizer of the recent Theorizing the Web 2011 conference.
PJ grew up in the Pittsburgh area. In 2006, he complete a BA with a double major in Political Science and Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. As an undergraduate, he was one of the few students each year to be inducted into the Da Vinci Society and was selected as the 2006 class representative/comencement speaker. He then began an MA in Continental philosophy at Duquesne University, which he completed in the Spring of 2008. PJ accepted a C.W. Mills Fellowship to study sociology at the University of Maryland beginning in the Fall of 2008. In 2010, PJ was awarded his MA in sociology and continues to work toward his Ph.D. under the advisement of George Ritzer.
PJ started the Cyborgology blog, one of the disciplines most well-trafficked technology and society blogs, along with his regular co-author and officemate Nathan Jurgenson.
