Ashley Mears

Ashley Mears is an economic sociologist and an ethnographer.  She is Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University.  She has writtent two books and a dozen articles and chapters on the gendered foundations of markets and the valuation of bodies at work.  She received her PhD from New York University.  She lives part time in Belgrade, Seriba.

The project

How Algorithms Shape Culture:  An ethnography of the attention economy and how artists use platforms to imagine audiences and the value of art in new ways.

Hosting institution : AxPo / Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (CRIS) | Sciences Po

Selective bibliography 

• 2021 Heba Gowayed, Ashley Mears and Nicholas Occhiuto.  “Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Responses to Sudden Job Loss.”  Invited submission, American Behavioral Scientist
• 2020 Very Important People: Beauty and Status in the Global Party Circuit, Princeton University Press.
• 2019 “Des Fêtes très Exclusives. Les Promoteurs de Soirées VIP, des Intermédiaires aux Ambitions Contraries.” Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales  
• 2018 Socio-Economic Review Special Issue, “Elites, Economy, and Society.”  Co-edited by Bruno Cousin, Shamus Khan, and Ashley Mears
• 2011 Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model, University of California Press.