Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist, whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age. She teaches digital media cultures and politics in university contexts (the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples 'L'Orientale’) and is also a member of the free university network Euronomade and of the Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative. Terranova's work has argued that the free labor of users is the source of economic value in the digital economy.