Dr. Cheryll Soriano
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Dr. Cheryll Soriano is a Professor of Communication and a Fellow at the Social Development Research Center at De La Salle University. Her research explores emerging forms of labor and labor infrastructures in the digital platform economy, examining how platformization shapes working conditions and organizing processes.
Dr. Soriano holds a Master's degree in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam from the Netherlands and a PhD in Communication and New Media from the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Soriano is the principal investigator of Fairwork Philippines and a co-investigator of Platform Ecosystems and Transactional Cultures in Asia. She participates in the international expert committee, Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL). Her books include the Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube (Amsterdam University Press) and Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (Routledge). She is the founding co-editor of the journal Platforms & Society.
She served as one of the resource speakers in SERP-P's knowledge-sharing seminar on “Unpacking the Rise of Online Filipino Platform Work and the Gig Economy” on October 28, 2024. At this event, she discussed the emerging form of brokerage in the Philippines’ digital labor market.
Check out her publications available on SERP-P through this link.
