This arrived today. There is only one copy which is grrr but it is a thing of beauty. And hard graft. Thanks to all our contributors and my co-editors @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @bltergin.bsky.social and Julie Chen

Solidarity in action: building worker-owned intersectional platforms in Latin America. Interview published in the journal Communication, Culture & Critique doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

Materia da MundoCoop sobre a conferencia Cooperative AI que aconteceu em Istanbul em novembro mundocoop.com.br/destaque/coo...

New article out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social (with Dušan Cotoras). We examine how AI ethics is negotiated in practice through an ethnographic study of a predictive system developed inside Chile’s Public Defender’s Office. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Soberania Popular e Autonomia: Diferentes Sentidos e Consequências para Políticas Digitais Novo artigo com Pedro Burity e Lorena Vilarins na revista Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo revistacmc.espm.br/revistacmc/a...

Survey on Inactive Platform Cooperative projects. Do you know of any? Please spread the word research-survey.sns.it/index.php/28... w/ @stefanotortorici.bsky.social @austinrobey.xyz Cecilia Munoz Cancela

Comic Book Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, with Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil - DigiLabour digilabour.com.br/comic-book-o...

Microsoft, Amazon e Google entraram nessa disputa ideológica para esvaziar o conceito de soberania digital. A proposta é apenas uma jogada comercial. É assim que avaliam os pesquisadores @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, da Univ. de Toronto e alecostabarbosa.bsky.social, da Univ. das Artes de Berlim.

Soberania digital como “serviço” é a nova estratégia ideológica das big techs Nos últimos anos, as maiores big techs lançaram novos produtos vendendo “soberania como serviço”, para governos e para o setor público.

EU targets Microsoft and Amazon The European Union moved to tighten regulation of U.S. hyperscalers Microsoft and Amazon in cloud services to curb their market dominance, officials said. With replies by 🎓Benoît Cœuré, 🎓Alberto Alemanno, 🎓Rafael Grohmann +1 more scholars.

Sovereignty as a service, sovereignty washing. The fact is that Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are selling "local clouds" to governments and businesses and calling it sovereignty lol. More in the article we published last week in Media, Culture & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come to my talk this Tuesday 7pm ET on Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms: lessons from Brazil and Argentina. Hybrid event organized by Civic Tech Toronto Registration here: civictech.ca/hacknights/5...

“When Microsoft offers a cloud designed for “government sovereignty,” or when Google presents digital sovereignty […] these are not just corporate responses to external demands, they are strategic appropriations of a concept that historically belonged to political communities, not private firms.” 👏👏

💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

With many thanks to the @platformsnsociety.bsky.social team for their valuable feedback, including Julie Chen, @andretwp.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social - thanks for giving us this place to dialogue!

We recently hosted a panel for “Ethics in Business & Society: Feminist Economies, Fair Trade, and Digital Platforms” as part of our Worlding Feminist Political Economies series with thoughtful perspectives from our amazing speakers — PK Mutch, Andria Barrett, and Dr. Rafael Grohmann! ✨

The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour. Out in December. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...

Livro Tecnologia Sem Teto, de autoria do Nucleo de Tecnologia do MTST, com prefacios de Guilherme Boulos e Rafael Grohmann: www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/livro

Syllabus of the undergrad course I'm teaching this term on Media Workers & AI, with funding from University of Toronto’s Global Classrooms Funding Initiative, connected to the Creative Labour and Critical Futures project. creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/teachin...

Amanha 13h canal DigiLabour faz uma conversa online com Rodrigo Ochigame sobre o seu novo livro Informatica do Oprimido Alem da apresentacao do livro, o evento conta com comentarios de Paola Ricaurte, Leonardo Foletto e Rafael Grohmann www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-H...

IA e Cooperativismo. Amanhã online na Semana de Inovação da ENAP

I would like to thank the 100+ attendees, speakers, and the organizing team of the Workers Governing Technologies workshop, which took place last week in Toronto. It was two intense days of collective learning with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Canada, Mexico, and the US.

One year of our project Creative Labour and Critical Futures, on AI in the cultural industries. Check out our list of activities from this past year creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/celebra...

Sovereignty isn’t just about building local data centres, in-shoring supply chains, or adding layers of regulation. It’s about having the agency and capability to make strategic choices public.digital/pd-insights/...

Obrigada, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social pela coordenação, confiança e por poder presenciar como você e sua pesquisa vão reunindo pessoas e grupos que estão dispostos a lutar por um mundo com mais amor e igualdade. #Art #BRart #MTST #historiasemquadrinhos Só mais um, segue o fio

Dear all, I will embark on a tour of NYC, Washington, and Toronto btw October 14-27... landing first for the lecture at the Vera List Center. Drop a line if around! www.veralistcenter.org/events/vlc-f...

HQ Outros Mundos Tecnológicos São Possíveis. Já disponível em português, espanhol e inglês @tecnologiamtst.bsky.social www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq

Taí! O lançamento da versão impressa foi hoje! E agora, pode beixar as versões online em português, inglês e espanhol ❤️ alt da imagem na resposta a este post

Other Tech Worlds Are Possible. Comic book is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese! Partnership with the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MTST), @germana-fazgibi.bsky.social English: digilabour.com.br/comic-book-o... Portuguese: www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq

Na Folha hoje sobre a importância dos trabalhadores da cultura para os debates sobre IA www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20...

Film festivals like TIFF set the tone for wider industry norms. Here’s what we’re watching around AI. Our piece for The Conversation. Daphne Idiz, Lauren Knight and I theconversation.com/film-festiva...

HQ da @germana-fazgibi.bsky.social que parece muito legal. Tem lançamento em São Paulo no domingo:

Last few seats available for the 'Workers Governing Technologies' workshop in Toronto. Register here creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/workers...

AI policy debates in Brazil: struggles over regulation, governance and labour. New article in the journal Global Political Economy Authors: Rafael Grohmann, Edemilson Paraná, Jonas CL Valente and Roseli Figaro Link: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Rafael Grohmann. Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts. In-person workshop in Toronto on Sep 25 and 26 with 20 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain and US Registration link and full schedule:

Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts. In-person workshop in Toronto on Sep 25 and 26 with 20 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain and US Registration link and full schedule: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go...

Ah, this looks good: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go... via @grohmannrafael.bsky.social

Artículo de opinión que escribí para el diario Tiempo Argentino (¡una cooperativa!) sobre el proyecto Plataformas de Propiedad de las Personas Trabajadoras e Interseccionalidad www.tiempoar.com.ar/ta_article/t...

#OutNow in #iCS The 2023 WGA strike marked a key moment in worker-led AI governance. Grohmann, Campos Rocha & Guilherme show how writers used collective power to frame generative AI as a labour issue—and secure contract protections. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Looking for something to read this weekend? Read the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms report, with shared learnings between Brazil and Argentina and concrete policy recommendations digilabour.com.br/wp-content/u...

✨ New Report: Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms: Shared Learning Between Brazil and Argentina. Read it in English, Spanish or Portuguese digilabour.com.br/report-launc...

Join us!

Tomorrow 10am report launch event. Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms digilabour-br.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A film where I’m singing! This is Acapulco, directed by Bruno Moreschi and Pedro Gallego, on data work for AI Link: vimeo.com/1019764079

Que dahora!!!

Tão feliz de estar nesse projeto ❤️

Outros Mundos Tecnológicos São Possíveis. Projeto de HQ financiado pela Universidade de Toronto e pelo SSHRC. O volume 1 foi co-criado com o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST). O lançamento da versão online na próxima semana, em português, inglês e espanhol.

Other Tech Worlds Are Possible. Comics project funded by the University of Toronto and SSHRC. The volume 1 was co-created with the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. The online launch will be available next week in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

New Senior Fellow at the Massey College! www.masseycollege.ca/2025/08/08/a...