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."
I am a digital ethnographer broadly studying the morals and politics that animate emerging technologies, and the consequences of digitalization for individuals and social institutions. My dissertation examines the meanings and motivations behind platform work, building on theoretical discussions of dependence, embeddedness, and fairness. My work has been published in Socius, Sociology of Religion, and Management and Organization Review.
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
Problem-Solving Ethnography
April 22, 2025
Collective Ethnography of Platform Work (with undergraduate students)
Pacific Sociological Association
March 29, 2025
Your Workshop / Conference?
Send me an email!