{"id":172,"date":"2021-09-04T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:40:55","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Fall 2025<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>September 17, Ya-Ching Huang<\/a>, <em>Cultural meanings and Decisions in Pediatric Palliative Care.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>October 22, Jenna Song<\/a>, <em>Commercialization and Connection Intertwined: How BookTubers\u2019 Relational Signaling Contributes to Audience Support.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>November 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/isakladegaard.com\/\">Isak Ladegaard<\/a>, <em>Platform Against the State.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>November 19, Ashley Mears, <em>Now You See Me: Inside the Economy of Misdirection.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Spring 2025<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>February 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uva.nl\/en\/profile\/k\/e\/k.dekeere\/k.de-keere.html\">Kobe De Keere<\/a>, <em>The Entrepreneur, Trailblazer and Cosmopolitan: Promoting the Ideal Worker Within the Finance, Tech, Energy and Intergovernmental Sectors.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>March 5, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitsloan.mit.edu\/faculty\/directory\/emilio-j-castilla\">Emilio Castilla<\/a>, <em>The Unfulfilled Promise of Meritocracy in Organizations.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>April 29, Zosia Cooper, <em> Title TBD.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>May 13, Hyo Young Lee, <em>Narrating Refugees: Frontline Workers\u2019 Narrative Recategorization Practice to Bridge the Gap between Needs and Resource Constraints.<i><\/i><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fall 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>September 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.princeton.edu\/people\/ekedi-mpondo-dika-phd\">Ek\u00e9di Mpondo-Dika<\/a>, <em>The Push and Pull of Poverty: Cyclical Ties in a Truly Disadvantaged Network.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><\/em>October 22, Ya-Ching Huang, <em>At Children\u2019s Bedsides: Valuation and Decision-Making in Pediatric Palliative Care.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>November 19, Elif Birced, <em>All One Million Views Are Not Equally Worthy: Cultural Gatekeepers and Classed Assessment of Talent in the Creator Economy.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>December 4, Eunice (Pulum) Kim,<em> <i>Expert Tools in Client Hands: How Real Estate Professionals Manage Expertise Erosion Amid Technology Platform Disruption.<\/i><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Spring 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>January 25, Dilan Eren, <em>Carving Out Pathways in the Open-Access Tech Skills Field<\/em><\/li>\n<li>February 15, Guest Speaker\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/social-policy\/antonucci-lorenza.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/social-policy\/antonucci-lorenza.aspx\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Lorenza Antonucci<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 21, Valerio Iannucci,<em> &#8216;Inverse&#8217; Founding and Alternative Paths of Entrepreneurial Organizing<\/em><\/li>\n<li>April 11, David Joseph-Goteiner, <em>Dimensions of Dependence: Platform Work as a Financial Mechanism<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fall 2023<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>October 16, Ashley Mears &amp; Taylor Beauvais, <i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">The Addiction of a Viral High: How Platforms Shape Labor Commitment in the Attention Economy\u00a0<\/i><em>, and Implications<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><\/em>October 30, Sara Snitstelear, Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>November 20, Micah Rajunov, <em>Between Dream Jobs and Real Jobs: Career Strategies for Pursuing Passionate Work<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>December 4, Elif Birced,<em> Becoming a Personal Brand or Sponsorship Oriented Content Creator: How Do Platform and Income Pathways Shape Control, Autonomy and Resistance in the Creator Economy?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Spring 2023<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>January 31, Valerio Iannucci and Michel Anteby, <em>The Rise of Neo-Experts: Sources, Characteristics, and Implications<\/em><\/li>\n<li>February 14, Guest Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu\/profile\/ldcamer\/\">Lindsey Cameron<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 14, Ya-Ching Huang, <em>Death and Dying in Children: The Economization of Pediatric Palliative Care; <\/em>Thao Nguyen, Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>March 21, Ashley Mears, Thao Nguyen, and Elif Birced, <em>Playing Cat-and-Mouse with a Platform: Attention Games under Algorithmic Management<\/em><\/li>\n<li>March 28, Guest Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/diesl.eu\/vili-lehdonvirta\/\">Vili Lehdonvirta<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 11, David Joseph-Goteiner, <em>Earmarked as Extra: How Platform Money Becomes &#8220;Beer Money&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>April 25, Qi Song, <em>Restructuring Social Relations: How Digital Platforms Transform the Freight Transportation Market in China<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fall 2022<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>September 6, Anna Gibson, <em>Adversarial Moderation in Facebook Groups<\/em><\/li>\n<li>September 20, Guest Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.stanford.edu\/people\/barbara-kiviat\">Barbara Kiviat<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 4, Elif Birced,\u00a0<em>Rethinking Autonomy in the Age of Platforms\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>October 25, Pulum Eunice Kim, <em>Falling from grace: context-specific stigma among Korean test prep instructors<\/em><\/li>\n<li>November 15, Dilan Eren, Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>December 13, Guest Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellogg.northwestern.edu\/faculty\/directory\/rivera_lauren\/\">Lauren Rivera<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Spring 2022<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>May 9, Elif Birced, <em>From Securing a Career to Securing Attention: The YouTubers&#8217; Strategies of Accumulating and Converting Attention Capital in Turkey\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>May 2, Diana Enriquez,\u00a0Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>April 25, Thao Nguyen, <em>Playing in the Grey: Stratified Markets under Platform Governance and Compliance in the Age of Censorship<\/em><\/li>\n<li>April 20, Bahar Aldanmaz,\u00a0Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>March 28, Ya-Ching Huang,\u00a0Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>March 14,\u00a0Micah Rajunov,\u00a0Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>March 7,\u00a0ESS Practice Session (Presenters: Micah, Dilan, Thao, Ya-Ching)<\/li>\n<li>February 14, Yun Ha Cho, <em>Memo: Metrics of Comments? &#8211; How YouTube Content Creators Respond to the Metric-Based Control of Platforms Over Different Stages of Their Career<\/em><\/li>\n<li>February 7, Michel Anteby, <em>Book Proposal: &#8220;The Interloper&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fall 2021<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dec 13, 2021- <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Diana Enriquez&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Diana Enriquez, F<em>reelancers are both a small business and an employee&#8230; how do they price their time?<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Dec 6, 2021- Elif Birced, <em>Between the Demands of Followers and Brands in the Attention Economy: <\/em><em>A Study of YouTubers and the Market of Content Creation in Turkey<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nov 29, 2021- Ashley Mears, <em>Magicians and the Problem of Secrecy in the Information Age: Theorizing Fields in Digitial Culture<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nov 22, 2021 -L\u00e9onie H\u00e9naut and Jennifer C. Lena, <em>Polyoccupationalism: Occupational Identities in a Postindustrial Era\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nov 15, 2021- <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Thao, Elif, Mears&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Thao Nguyen, Elif Birced, and Ashley Mears, <em>Attention Capital: Algorithmic Imaginaries and the Uneven Pursuit of Profit Online<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nov 8, 2021- Micah Rajunov, Work in progress<\/li>\n<li>Nov 1, 2021- Allison Wigen, <em>Negotiating Unequal Exchange: Relational Work in Cross-Class Sibling Relationships<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Oct 4, 2021- General Meeting, <em>Qualitative Data Analysis Practices<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sept 13, 2021 &#8211; Audrey Holm, Poster Presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Spring 2021<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span>June 29, 2021 &#8211;\u00a0 Ashley Mears, &#8220;Going Viral: Creative Labor in the Field of Digital Cultural Production&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>June 15, 2021 &#8211; Dilan Eren, &#8220;Gift-Production of Inequality&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><span>May 5, 2021 &#8211; Ya-Ching Huang, \u201cThe Moral Economy of Homemade Masks in Times of COVID-19\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>March 17, 2021 &#8211;\u00a0 Elif Birced, &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t Forget to Like and Subscribe: The Content Creators on YouTube and the Market of Content Creation in the US and Turkey&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>March 10, 2021 &#8211;\u00a0 Micah Rajunov, \u201cPay to Play: Careers of Professional Video Gamers\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall 2025 September 17, Ya-Ching Huang, Cultural meanings and Decisions in Pediatric Palliative Care. October 22, Jenna Song, Commercialization and Connection Intertwined: How BookTubers\u2019 Relational Signaling Contributes to Audience Support. November 12, Isak Ladegaard, Platform Against the State. November 19, Ashley Mears, Now You See Me: Inside the Economy of Misdirection. 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