David Rozas (drozas)

I have been learning and enjoying Drupal and its community since 2010. I am a social researcher (PhD in Sociology) and computer scientist (BSc/Eng and MSc in Computer Science), focusing on the intersection of the technical and social aspects of technology, particularly in the context of the collaborative economy and the future of work. I currently serve as a tenured scientist (R4) at the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas), within the Spanish State Administration. With an interdisciplinary background in computer science and sociology, my work bridges computational methods and social research. My research explores the intersection of political behavior, public opinion, and digital technologies, with a particular interest in open data, algorithmic governance, and the methodological innovation of survey and platform-based research.

Previously, I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Systems and Computation at the Faculty of Computer Science, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Before that, I was a postdoctoral research fellow on the EU ERC project P2PModels, where we explored decentralized technologies, such as blockchain, with the aim of providing mechanisms that facilitate more democratic and decentralized organizational processes, as well as new models of value distribution in the context of commons-based peer production and platform cooperatives.

My doctoral research, supervised by Professor Nigel Gilbert and Professor Paul Hodkinson at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK), concerned individual involvement and group dynamics in commons-based peer production communities, focusing on the development community for Free/Libre Open Source Software, Drupal, in the context of the FP7 EU project P2Pvalue. You can find a summary of my research in this community keynote given at DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdEVaOjL20s

Further details of my research can be found in the following academic articles:

"Talk Is Silver, Code Is Gold? Beyond Traditional Notions of Contribution in Peer Production: The Case of Drupal": https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2021.618207

"Loosen Control without Losing Control: Formalization and Decentralization within Commons-Based Peer Production": https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24393

"Exploring Organization through Contributions: Using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices": https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241229344

"Addressing Durability in Collaborative Organising: Event Atmospheres and Polyrhythmic Affectivity": https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241229344

- "Self-organisation in commons-based peer production. Drupal: 'the drop is always moving'" (PhD thesis): https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Self-organisa...