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Platforms without borders. Workshop in London organized by James Muldoon, Denise Kasparian, Andrea Pollio, Lin Zhang, Marc Steinberg and myself, bringing together 25 early career researchers from around the world. Many thanks to each of you who participated in the workshop!

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📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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We got a SSHRC Connection grant. Workers governing Technologies www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resu...

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We got a SSHRC Connection grant. Workers governing Technologies www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resu...

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Se você se preocupa com o futuro do trabalho e em como as plataformas assaltam as nossas vidas, você precisa ler esta entrevista. O @grohmannrafael.bsky.social é uma das vozes mais bem informadas, mais inteligentes e mais articuladas que temos. E não é de hoje! www.projetodraft.com/quando-a-ia-...

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Brilliant people at the Platforms without borders workshop in London #Space4 #platforms thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for the wonderful hosting and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social Denise Kasparian @marcsteinberg.bsky.social

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Secretaria Nacional de Economia Popular e Solidária (SENAES/MTE) anuncia Conferência Temática em Economia Solidária Digital e Cooperativismo de Plataforma. Dia 21 de maio, online Para participar: forms.office.com/r/gX7VACtkHA

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EVENT ALERT: Platforms and Society and @adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)

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Join us on Monday @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @julieychen.bsky.social

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✨So excited to see this great paper by Roda Siad and Sophie Toupin in print in an upcoming special issue on Datafied Development edited by @ibalilebali.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @posada.website and myself in Big Data and Society @sagepub.com!

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CFP: Contesting Digital Labor: Resistance, Counter-uses, and New Directions for Research indl-8.sciencesconf.org

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Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion. New paper by Sophie Toupin and Roda Siad published in special issue on Datafied Development that Amir Anwar, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @posada.website and I are editing for Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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In this article, I argue that digital labor developments and struggles should be understood as labor-atories of digital economies, with focus on Latin America. ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

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Latin American critical data studies by Rafael Grohmann in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rafael Grohmann. Labor-atories of Digital Economies: Latin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation. In this new article, I theorize how digital labor contexts update informality, dependency, solidarity economies in Latin America, considering data/AI work, etc

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Two main topics of the article are the conceptualization of digital solidarity economies and a brief analysis of the global implication of data work, AI value chains, and the role of cultural sector ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

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Labor-atories of Digital Economies: Latin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation. In this new article, I theorize how digital labor contexts update informality, dependency, solidarity economies in Latin America, considering data/AI work, etc ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

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Platforms, AI and grassroots social movements. Online roundtable organized by Universite Laval. Today 3PM ET. www.obvia.ca/evenements/p...

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A fantastic paper by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social on the Latin American tradition of critical data studies. "Critical data studies should not only take place ‘in’ Latin America, as a site of research, but also emerge ‘from’ and ‘with’ Latin America" journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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New article published in Big Data & Society. Latin American Critical Data Studies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Are you researching the role of AI for workers in the media, arts and culture sectors? Consider submitting an abstract to our special issue for AI & Society journal on the topic. link.springer.com/collections/...

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On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

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CfP Special Issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI for AI & Society journal, co-edited by me, Daphne Idiz and @zoeglatt.bsky.social . Deadline for sending abstracts: June 30 link.springer.com/journal/146/...

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A quick announcement from the editors @julieychen.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social that we are now live on bsky. We will be posting updates about Platforms & Society on here. Follow to keep abreast!

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We are on bsky ! Or better, our journal is. Follow for more

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Próxima segunda às 19h30 conversarei com a presidenta da cooperativa Tiempo Argentino , Malena Winer, em evento organizado pela Ulbra ulbra.br/live

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Guest talk in Toronto with Alexandre Nogueira Martins (Freie Universität Berlin). Disputing Futures: Queer and Trans Anti-Neoliberal Utopias from Argentina and Colombia. April 8, from 3 to 5 PM, BL 520, University of Toronto Register here: forms.office.com/r/zmUJRsR5wv

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Digital Solidarity Economy in Brazil spotlighted on the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

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Tonight in London at Pelican House www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pedagogies...

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Had an absolutely fantastic time at the ‘Global Southing’ Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the @oii.ox.ac.uk got to meet some academic idols and met new ones as well. Looking forward to tomorrow’s presentations. @andreamedrado.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social

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If you are around London, join me this Friday at Pelican House for my talk Pedagogies of Struggles: Workers Failing and Learning to Govern Platforms in Latin America www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

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Awesome visit to Toronto meeting such brilliant scholars and lovely people and getting to hang out with two of my Massive Handbook(TM) co-editors Julie and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social

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Next week I'll be in Oxford for this workshop on Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI studies. I'll talk about Platform Dependency, how platform studies are overlooking dependency theories and the importance of Latin American dependency theories www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

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This Saturday 4:30PM I'll be the keynote of the iConference at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto talking about the book I'm writing. If you are around Toronto, join us! ischool.utoronto.ca/event/iconfe...

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Learning About Trans Technologies and Work in Brazil and Argentina, written by Joaquim Renato Alves da Souza, a worker at the Senoritas Courier cooperative in Brazil. Supported by Queer and Trans Research Lab and Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) project. sds.utoronto.ca/news/learnin...

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Kylie Jarrett in Toronto. March 21 4PM at the Faculty of Information/UofT. Infrastructures and Imaginaries: Reproducing Workers in the Platform Economy. Register here: forms.office.com/r/gKXwwgG9Rh @kylzjarrett.bsky.social

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Abriu chamada pra voluntáries no Núcleo de tecnologia do MTST, porque tecnologia também é ferramenta de luta! forms.gle/aWmevvyTqZZ5... Tem muito projeto bacana acontecendo, inclusive jogos! Querem uma palhinha? só assistir o episódio crocante #67 do @controlesvoadores.com.br

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I'll be in 🍁Toronto🇨🇦 on Monday for a book event, in conversation with T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault! Thanks to Rafael Grohmann and the 🏳️‍🌈Queer and Trans Research Lab🏳️‍⚧️ for organizing this. sds.utoronto.ca/events/book-...

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In which @parismarx.com makes the case for digital sovereignty and a coordinated international effort to constrain Silicon Valley in the wake of Trump's tariffs: www.disconnect.blog/p/we-need-an...

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Last year, the City of Toronto adopted some guiding principles for building an inclusive economic development framework. Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty. Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ

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In London this month. Talk series AI Rights & Wrongs. I'll be there on March 28 at the famous Pelican House talking about workers failing and learning to govern platforms and their pedagogies of struggles

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I'm a new advisory board member of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca/people

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