A. Aneesh is the author of Virtual Migration (2006) who put forward the concept of algocracy now widely used to convey the growing importance and threat of algorithms in social life. In Virtual Migration Aneesh discusses the effects of the movement of labor through technology. The idea of algocracy means governance by computer algorithms, instead of bureaucratic rules or surveillance. He is Director of the Institute of World Affairs and Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Previously, he taught in the Science and Technology Program at Stanford University (2001–04). His scholarship intersects several areas of research: globalization, migration, science & technology, and intellectual property. With a wide background in the social and cultural l