New paper accepted at CHI 2026: How Digital Technology Facilitates Union Busting →
Freddy Reiber (BU) examines how employers use digital surveillance, spacing, and other technology-mediated tactics to suppress union organizing.
Recent news, accepted papers, talks, and media coverage from the Working Futures Network.
Freddy Reiber (BU) examines how employers use digital surveillance, spacing, and other technology-mediated tactics to suppress union organizing.
Freddy Reiber (BU) examines how the affordances of digital platforms shape modern labor organizing communities.
WAO project led by Dana with Samantha Dalal and Varun Rao — designed FairFare with CIDU organizers in Colorado to crowdsource difficult-to-access rideshare worker data for policy advocacy.
View on publications page →Varun Rao led the design of a tool with a rideshare labor union in WA to help them automate the process of contesting arbitrary AI and algorithmic deactivations.
View on publications page →Shomik Jain (MIT IDSS) crowdsourced two weeks of extended AI interactions to understand how LLMs mirror our behavior and perspectives in real-world use.
View on publications page →Tianqi Kou's paper on why AI researchers' social benefit claims often go unfulfilled. Theorizes a 'dead zone' of accountability and proposes ways to foster accountability for social claims in ML research.
View on publications page →Dana organized a salon on algorithmic wage discrimination as part of the Data & Society Public Tech Leadership Collaborative Salon Series.
Dana presented WAO research at the HotPETS workshop on measuring risks in digital economies using crowdsourced US consumer data.
Dana spoke at the Conference on Sustainable Work in Stockholm about building data infrastructures that translate workplace rights into tangible access for workers.
Dana gave a guest lecture on how algorithmic management systems undermine occupational health research and worker engagement approaches.
Dana was an invited panelist at the AIAI Symposium at Georgia Tech, discussing the intersection of AI, culture, and democracy.
Dana presented on automation, management, and activism in the AI workplace at Google DeepMind's research talk series.
Coverage of Shomik Jain's (MIT IDSS) research on norm inconsistency in AI decision-making and its implications for surveillance and policing.
Dana was interviewed by The Washington Post about AI narratives in popular culture and their relationship to real-world AI deployment.
Dana wrote for IEEE Spectrum about how Shipt delivery drivers organized a community-led data audit when their pay suddenly dropped due to an algorithmic change.
Received a $250,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for 'Empowering Delivery Gig Workers with Data and Insights to Improve Health.'