David: Researcher, teacher, mentor, and student of sociology
Welcome! Bienvenue! Hoş geldin! I'm a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley's sociology department, and currently on the job market (2024-2025). My dissertation is titled "Time and Money Well Spent? The Moral Economy of Platform Work." It focuses on the experiences and motivations of American "data workers," who get paid to generate the data that fuels academic research and the development of artificial intelligence.
Publications (or CV)
“From Degrees to Dimensions: Accounts of Workers’ Socioeconomic Dependence on Platforms.” In Socius.
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“Institutional Logics: Motivating Action and Overcoming Resistance to Change” (with Heather Haveman and Danyang Li). In Management and Organization Review, 2023.
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“The Globalization of an Interaction Ritual Chain: ‘Clapping for Carers’ During the Conflict Against COVID-19” (with Alexandre Rigal). In Sociology of Religion, Winter 2021.
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Recent / Upcoming Talks
Becoming a Professional Survey Taker via Work Games: Traction and Distraction
Eastern Sociological Society
March 8, 2025
Collective Ethnography of Platform Work (with undergraduate students)
Pacific Sociological Association
March 29, 2025
Your Workshop / Conference?
Send me an email!