December 2024
My project Analog Trades in a Digital World has been awarded a research grant from the Russell Sage Foundation’s Future of Work program.
November 2024
Behind the Startup will be featured in a Book Forum at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
“The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing” has been published in the CSCW 2024 Conference Proceedings.
October 2024
“Relationships that Matter: Four Perspectives on AI, Work, and Organizations” has been published by the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences.
September 2024
“Cleaning Up Data Work: Negotiating Meaning, Morality, and Inequality in a Tech Startup” has been published in Big Data & Society.
“The Labor of Assetization: Producing ‘Hypergrowth’ Inside a Tech Startup” has been published in Socio-Economic Review.
I have received the 2023-24 Mentor of the Year Award from Penn’s Graduate Sociological Society.
I was quoted in a Fast Company article about the workers who train AI systems and how their jobs are organized.
I was profiled in Forbes India in tandem with the release of the South Asian edition of Behind the Startup.
August 2024
Behind the Startup was reviewed in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
June 2024
My op-ed about VC-driven innovation was published in the San Francisco Chronicle. An extended, non-paywalled version is available at Zócalo Public Square.
I was quoted in a USA Today article about a private equity firm’s purchase of the organization that runs the ACT exam.
The audiobook edition of Behind the Startup is now available.
May 2024
I was elected to a term on the council of the ASA Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology.
April 2024
I have been selected for a 2024 Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
I was interviewed as part of a Seattle Public Radio program on the hidden, outsourced labor behind Amazon’s AI systems.
March 2024
My book, Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality, has been published by the University of California Press. Excerpts have appeared in publications including Fast Company, IEEE Spectrum, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.
January 2024
My co-authored article, “Structures of Capital and Sociotechnical Change: The Case of Tech Startups and VC,” has been published in the International Journal of Communication. It is part of a forum on sociotechnical change.
In 2023, I will be participating in the Summer Institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Summer Institute on Political Economy and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
My article, “Making Platforms Work: Relationship Labor and the Management of Publics” (with Shreeharsh Kelkar) has been awarded the 2021 Star-Nelkin Paper Award by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology.
My co-authored article, “Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Research on Inequalities and Structural Change,” has been published in Socius.
In February 2021, I was quoted in a Pew Research Center report on technology and the “new normal” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
My essay, “Stepping Back to Move Forward: Centering Capital in Discussions of Work and Technology,” has been published in Communication and the Public.
My article, “Making Platforms Work: Relationship Labor and the Management of Publics” (with Shreeharsh Kelkar) has been published in Theory and Society.
In February 2020, I was quoted in a Pew Research Center report on digital disruption and the future of democracy.
My article “Working Algorithms” has been awarded the 2019 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work.
In June 2019, I will participate in a keynote plenary panel on the future of work at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Collective Intelligence conference.
In March 2019, I was quoted in an Axios article on the relationship between AI and on-the-job training.
My research is featured in a recent TED Talk and Harvard Business Review article about learning to work with intelligent machines.
In December 2018, I was quoted in a Pew Research Center report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans.”
I wrote a short piece on my recent research for Work in Progress.
My invited essay on “Ethnography and Theory” was published in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section.
On July 1, 2018, I joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
In June 2018, I began a three-year term on the international editorial board of Work and Occupations.
On May 31, 2018, I delivered a keynote address at the Humanising AI conference at Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
In April 2018, I discussed my research on The Annex, a sociology podcast.
In December 2017, I was interviewed for a feature in the ASA OOW Newsletter.