David Elliot Berman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Media and the Arts

David Elliot Berman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. Prior to arriving at Seton Hall in 2024, Berman was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2022.

His research focuses on media labor, media policy, and media activism. With Victor Pickard, he is the author of the book After Net Neutrality: A New Deal for the Digital Age, which was published by Yale University Press in 2019. His upcoming book—The Optimizers: How Silicon Valley Reprogrammed Journalism—investigates how social media algorithms have transformed journalistic labor.

Before entering academia, Berman served as the Director of New Media for a political communications firm based in New York City and Washington, D.C.