Frederick Reiber
Hi! I am Freddy Reiber, a PhD candidate in the Computing & Data Science program at Boston University where I am fortunate to be advised by the fantastic Allison McDonald.
Broadly, my work is at the intersection technology and political economy with a human-centered, critical, and emancipitory focus. Much of my recent pursuits have worked to examine the role of technology in labor resistance and collective action, focused on empowering workers and workplace organizers in their relationship with technology. I also actively study the relationship between technology and political economy, and am broadly interested in second-order questions concerning the dialectical relationship between social structures and technological systems.
News
- October 2026: I will be heading to Salt Lake City to present our CSCW 2026 paper Organizing in the Digital Age: Understanding Community, Challenges, and Consequences in Digitally-facilitated Labor Organizing
- August 2026: My co-authors and I have just submitted our USENIX paper, looking at the motivations and political leanings of cryptography.
- April 2026: I published: Surveillance, Spacing, Screaming and Scabbing: How Digital Technology Facilitates Union Busting a theory building peice on how technology is used to counter union organizing.