Rachel O’Dwyer is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the School of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. Her research areas include digital commons, political economy of communications and alternative currencies. She is the leader of the Dublin Art and Technology Association and the curator of Openhere, a festival and conference on the digital commons. She has published in journals such as Fibreculture and Ephemera, as well as book chapters – most recently Institute of Network Culture’s Moneylab Reader (2015) and Routledge’s Companion to Remix Studies (Winter 2014). She is a regular contributor to Neural magazine and the founding editor in chief of the open access peer-reviewed journal Interference.