DrJulian Prester

Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems

Business School

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Digital Work and Organising

 

  • Digital nomadism and location-independent knowledge work
  • Identity performance in unsettled and fluid work settings
  • Remote and hybrid work, all-remote organisations
  • AI-mediated knowledge work and human-AI configurations

 

Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Organising

 

  • Digital platforms for knowledge work (Upwork, Fiverr, freelance marketplaces)
  •  Algorithmic organising in open-source and distributed organisations
  •  Signalling and reputation on digital labour platforms
  • Bots, automation, and the blurring of human-machine boundaries

 

Research Methods and Meta-Research

 

  • Multi-sited ethnography and participant observation
  •  Computational social science (NLP, deep learning, topic modelling)
  •  Systematic and collaborative literature reviews
  • Process-relational and performative theoretical approaches

 

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Work from Anywhere: Reimagining Organisational Theory for Digitally Nomadic Organising
    Sydney Business School1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Prester J