PhD student at MIT, studying how data stewardship and analysis can impact community governance.
Right now, I'm focused on how algorithmic management is changing the reality of work, how data stewardship and participatory design can help create alternate working futures, and on the data rights of platform workers.
Recent Publications and Invited Talks
Organizing in the End of Employment: Information Sharing, Data Stewardship, and Digital Workerism
Dan Calacci[preprint] CHIWORK, 2022
Bargaining With the Black-Box: Designing and Deploying Worker-Centric Tools to Audit Algorithmic Management
Dan Calacci, Alex (Sandy) Pentland[preprint] CSCW, 2022
Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google's FLoC
Alex Berke, Dan Calacci[preprint] Under Review, 2022
The Cop in Your Neighbor's Doorbell
Dan Calacci, Jeffrey Shen, Alex (Sandy) Pentland[preprint] CSCW, 2022
Leveraging Communication Topologies Between Learning Agents in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey, Anirudh Goyal, P.M. Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex PentlandAAMAS, 2020
The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good
Dan Calacci, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Alex (Sandy) PentlandPreprint, 2019