Emília Barna, PhD is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is a sociologist and popular music scholar, her main research areas include the music industries and digitalisation, popular music and gender, cultural labour, and popular music and politics. Her monograph Working in Music on the Semiperiphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism was published by Central European University Press in 2025. She has co-edited the books Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music (2017, Routledge), Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem: From Cassettes to Stream (2020, Palgrave), and Populáris kultúra és politika (Popular Culture and Politics; 2024, Typotex), and published articles in First Monday, Popular Music & Society, and Popular Music.