He is the founder of Mamame, a social innovation project bringing together the organizational form of cooperative and limited liability company in economizing under-represented women’s labor, which won the Entrepreneurship of the Year Award in 2017 from Microsoft Turkey.
He is the co-founder of The Wrong Department, an international strategic design studio with office in London and New York City.
He received his Ph.D. with distinction from NYU’s Politics Department, with which he won the Malcolm Kerr Social Science Award from MESA.
Books Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity came out from Princeton University Press and focused on global commodity markets and relations of economization.
[9][10] Economization: Markets, Economies and Platforms in Perspective is co-authored with Michel Callon and Donald MacKenzie,[11] coming out in 2024 by Columbia University Press.
Stacked Economization: A Research Programme for the Study of Platforms, Journal of Cultural Economy.
Data Money Makers: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Global Cryptocurrency Community, The British Journal of Sociology, Vol 73, 168-187.
Platform Works as Stack Economization: Cryptocurrency Markets and Exchanges in Perspective, Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate, Vol.
Polanyi, Callon, and Amazon: Institutionalist, ANT, and DRAN Approaches to Platform Economies.
Data Money: The Socio-Technical Infrastructure of Cryptocurrency Blockchains, Economy and Society, Vol.
A Timely Rapprochement between Design Scholarship and Economization Studies, City, Vol.
He was the director of the film "Last Villagers of Avshar", producer of "Pipelines Made up of Donkeys" film and producer of the documentary "Republic of Wonderland: Turkish TV Series in the World".
His last research project on cryptocurrencies, their global communities and blockchains was selected to be a winner of the Scientific Breakthrough of the Year Award in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Falling Walls Foundation.
[24] Currently, on an ESRC grant, he is carrying out research with his team on the economic sociology of digital advertisements.