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? Meanings 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.

You can find my up-to-date CV here.

The first article from my dissertation: From Degrees to Dimensions: Accounts of Workers’ Socioeconomic Dependence on Platforms

Another publication: The Globalization of an Interaction Ritual Chain: “Clapping for Carers” During the Conflict Against COVID-19 was published in Sociology of Religion, with Alexandre Rigal.

Before coming to UC Berkeley, I completed a master's in sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (in 2018) and received my bachelor's from Yale University (in 2014).

Feel free to email me about any and everything: djosephgoteiner@berkeley.edu