Past Events

January 25, Dilan Eren, Carving Out Pathways in the Open-Access Tech Skills Field
February 15, Guest Speaker Lorenza Antonucci
March 21, Valerio Iannucci, ‘Inverse’ Founding and Alternative Paths of Entrepreneurial Organizing
April 11, David Joseph-Goteiner, Dimensions of Dependence: Platform Work as a Financial Mechanism

October 16, Ashley Mears & Taylor Beauvais, The Addiction of a Viral High: How Platforms Shape Labor Commitment in the Attention Economy , and Implications
October 30, Sara Snitstelear, TBD
November 20, Micah Rajunov, Between Dream Jobs and Real Jobs: Career Strategies for Pursuing Passionate Work.
December 4, Elif Birced, Becoming a Personal Brand or Sponsorship Oriented Content Creator: How Do Platform and Income Pathways Shape Control, Autonomy and Resistance in the Creator Economy?

January 31, Valerio Iannucci and Michel Anteby, The Rise of Neo-Experts: Sources, Characteristics, and Implications
February 14, Spring Speaker Series, Guest: Lindsey Cameron
March 14, Ya-Ching Huang, Death and Dying in Children: The Economization of Pediatric Palliative Care; Thao Nguyen, TBD
March 21, Ashley Mears, Thao Nguyen, and Elif Birced, Playing Cat-and-Mouse with a Platform: Attention Games under Algorithmic Management
March 28, Spring Speaker Series, Guest: Vili Lehdonvirta
April 11, David Joseph-Goteiner, Earmarked as Extra: How Platform Money Becomes “Beer Money”
April 25, Qi Song, Restructuring Social Relations: How Digital Platforms Transform the Freight Transportation Market in China

September 6, Anna Gibson, Adversarial Moderation in Facebook Groups
September 20, Fall Speaker Series, Guest: Barbara Kiviat
October 4, Elif Birced, Rethinking Autonomy in the Age of Platforms
October 25, Pulum Eunice Kim, Falling from grace: context-specific stigma among Korean test prep instructors
November 15, Dilan Eren, TBA
December 13, Fall Speaker Series, Guest: Lauren Rivera

May 9, Elif Birced, From Securing a Career to Securing Attention: The YouTubers’ Strategies of Accumulating and Converting Attention Capital in Turkey
May 2, Diana Enriquez, TBA
April 25, Thao Nguyen, Playing in the Grey: Stratified Markets under Platform Governance and Compliance in the Age of Censorship
April 20, Bahar Aldanmaz, TBD
March 28, Ya-Ching Huang, TBA
March 14, Micah Rajunov, TBD
March 7, ESS Practice Session (Presenters: Micah, Dilan, Thao, Ya-Ching)
February 14, Yun Ha Cho, Memo: Metrics of Comments? – How YouTube Content Creators Respond to the Metric-Based Control of Platforms Over Different Stages of Their Career
February 7, Michel Anteby, Book Proposal: “The Interloper”

Dec 13, 2021- Diana Enriquez, Freelancers are both a small business and an employee… how do they price their time?
Dec 6, 2021- Elif Birced, Between the Demands of Followers and Brands in the Attention Economy: A Study of YouTubers and the Market of Content Creation in Turkey
Nov 29, 2021- Ashley Mears, Magicians and the Problem of Secrecy in the Information Age: Theorizing Fields in Digitial Culture
Nov 22, 2021 -Léonie Hénaut and Jennifer C. Lena, Polyoccupationalism: Occupational Identities in a Postindustrial Era
Nov 15, 2021- Thao Nguyen, Elif Birced, and Ashley Mears, Attention Capital: Algorithmic Imaginaries and the Uneven Pursuit of Profit Online
Nov 8, 2021- Micah Rajunov, WIP
Nov 1, 2021- Allison Wigen, Negotiating Unequal Exchange: Relational Work in Cross-Class Sibling Relationships
Oct 4, 2021- General Meeting, Qualitative Data Analysis Practices
Sept 13, 2021 – Audrey Holm, Poster Presentation

June 29, 2021 – Ashley Mears, “Going Viral: Creative Labor in the Field of Digital Cultural Production”
June 15, 2021 – Dilan Eren, “Gift-Production of Inequality”
May 5, 2021 – Ya-Ching Huang, “The Moral Economy of Homemade Masks in Times of COVID-19”
March 17, 2021 – Elif Birced, “Please Don’t Forget to Like and Subscribe: The Content Creators on YouTube and the Market of Content Creation in the US and Turkey”
March 10, 2021 – Micah Rajunov, “Pay to Play: Careers of Professional Video Gamers”