Edemilson Paraná is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at LUT University in Finland, where he leads the Research Group on Economics, Technology, and Society (GETS). He is also an affiliated professor in the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil. He has taught and published extensively on political economy, economic sociology, and social theory. His academic work has appeared in journals such as Big Data & Society, New Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Globalizations, Historical Materialism, and Platforms & Society, among others. He is also the author of Digitalized Finance: Financial Capitalism and Informational Revolution (Brill, 2019; Haymarket, 2020).