Sarah Fox
@perhaxis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at CMU HCII | https://techsolidaritylab.com/
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It’s the last day of #CSCW2025! Come by at 2:30pm at the Perspectives on Data Privacy session to watch me discuss the resistance tactics that workers use to circumvent surveillance and how they build towards collective action
“It’s Always a Losing Game”: How Workers Understand and Resist Surveillance Technologies on the Job. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
'It's Always a Losing Game': How Workers Understand and Resist Surveillance Technologies on the Job | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
With the rise of remote work, a range of surveillance technologies are increasingly being used by business owners to track and monitor employees, raising concerns about worker rights and privacy. Through analysis of Reddit posts and in-depth semi-...
dl.acm.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It’s the last day of #CSCW2025! Come by at 2:30pm at the Perspectives on Data Privacy session to watch me discuss the resistance tactics that workers use to circumvent surveillance and how they build towards collective action
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👋 Hello #CSCW2025! I’ll be presenting my paper on tech worker organizing on Monday at 4:30pm in the Advocacy Work session and my dissertation work “From the Future of Work to the Future of Labor: Centering Worker Resistance in Age of AI and Automation” at the demos/posters reception! Please say hi!
What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
👋 Hello #CSCW2025! I’ll be presenting my paper on tech worker organizing on Monday at 4:30pm in the Advocacy Work session and my dissertation work “From the Future of Work to the Future of Labor: Centering Worker Resistance in Age of AI and Automation” at the demos/posters reception! Please say hi!
Don't miss this chance! Cella is a force and any department would be lucky to have her.
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Don't miss this chance! Cella is a force and any department would be lucky to have her.
🎉 Thrilled to share that @samshorey.bsky.social and I have signed a book contract with @ucpress.bsky.social through their Co-Opting AI Series! "Reparative AI" is about what happens when AI breaks, and how repair becomes resistance, sabotage, and a challenge to whether AI is worth saving at all.
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🎉 Thrilled to share that @samshorey.bsky.social and I have signed a book contract with @ucpress.bsky.social through their Co-Opting AI Series! "Reparative AI" is about what happens when AI breaks, and how repair becomes resistance, sabotage, and a challenge to whether AI is worth saving at all.
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
Couldn’t be prouder of Franky Spektor, who successfully defended her dissertation today: "Documentation as Direct Action: Alternative Data Practices for the Labor Movement"! 🎉Her work surfaces the risks of data-driven evidentiary standards that too often obscure, rather than reveal, workplace harm.
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Couldn’t be prouder of Franky Spektor, who successfully defended her dissertation today: "Documentation as Direct Action: Alternative Data Practices for the Labor Movement"! 🎉Her work surfaces the risks of data-driven evidentiary standards that too often obscure, rather than reveal, workplace harm.
Reposted by Sarah Fox
What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
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Out now in the AI Hype special issue in Digital Journalism, "Automating Essential Work:"
📰 10 years of news stories
📈 tech company execs become sources when the industry shifts from traditional automation to robots
👷🏻♀️ 0 quotes from on-the-ground workers
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
📰 10 years of news stories
📈 tech company execs become sources when the industry shifts from traditional automation to robots
👷🏻♀️ 0 quotes from on-the-ground workers
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
August 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Out now in the AI Hype special issue in Digital Journalism, "Automating Essential Work:"
📰 10 years of news stories
📈 tech company execs become sources when the industry shifts from traditional automation to robots
👷🏻♀️ 0 quotes from on-the-ground workers
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
📰 10 years of news stories
📈 tech company execs become sources when the industry shifts from traditional automation to robots
👷🏻♀️ 0 quotes from on-the-ground workers
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
* STS folks! * CMU is hiring up to 2 tenure track faculty focused on: the intersection of tech & social change, the environmental and social impacts of science, tech, and medicine. They will be housed in History, a department of both historians and anthropologists.
apply.interfolio.com/170040
apply.interfolio.com/170040
July 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
* STS folks! * CMU is hiring up to 2 tenure track faculty focused on: the intersection of tech & social change, the environmental and social impacts of science, tech, and medicine. They will be housed in History, a department of both historians and anthropologists.
apply.interfolio.com/170040
apply.interfolio.com/170040
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I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.
President Donald Trump travels to Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday for a summit on energy and artificial intelligence. Leaders say Western Pennsylvania's universities and natural-gas deposits could be vital to both industries. But researchers are concerned about AI's energy demands.
With Trump set to attend AI & energy summit, CMU professor worries climate issues will be lost
Carnegie Mellon University professor Emma Strubell says that while AI is promising, the threat of climate change "does keep me up at night a lot"
www.wesa.fm
July 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.
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New! Govt tech purchasing has never been more high stakes, yet decisions about it rarely include public input. @megyoung0.bsky.social, w Sarah Fox, Vinhcent Le, & Oscar J. Romero Jr, explain why such input is essential, and outline specific opportunities & tactics. datasociety.net/library/gear...
June 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New! Govt tech purchasing has never been more high stakes, yet decisions about it rarely include public input. @megyoung0.bsky.social, w Sarah Fox, Vinhcent Le, & Oscar J. Romero Jr, explain why such input is essential, and outline specific opportunities & tactics. datasociety.net/library/gear...
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moral crumple zones as a service
The New York Times asked me for a new job that AI will create.
I suggested "sin eater."
(lots of good discussion of many other jobs in the article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...)
I suggested "sin eater."
(lots of good discussion of many other jobs in the article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...)
June 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
moral crumple zones as a service
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Apply to work at the UCSD Labor Center as a Program and Communications Manager! Applications close in about a week. laborcenter.ucsd.edu/get-involved...
Careers
laborcenter.ucsd.edu
May 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Apply to work at the UCSD Labor Center as a Program and Communications Manager! Applications close in about a week. laborcenter.ucsd.edu/get-involved...
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New pub out from @davidthewid.bsky.social and me. We suggest that computer science should learn from anthropology’s critical examination of its colonial roots. AI for good projects like low resource NLP resemble early salvage anthropology projects, where anthros tried to preserve “dying” languages
Salvage Anthropology and Low-Resource NLP: What Computer Science Should Learn from the Social Sciences | Interactions
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology
production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and
conversations about all tech ...
dl.acm.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New pub out from @davidthewid.bsky.social and me. We suggest that computer science should learn from anthropology’s critical examination of its colonial roots. AI for good projects like low resource NLP resemble early salvage anthropology projects, where anthros tried to preserve “dying” languages
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Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.
Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.