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Rafael Grohmann
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Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing

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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 1d
[New special issue] Digital Solidarity Economies, edited by María Belén Albornoz, @ricardespelt.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, & Denise Kasparian --> 14 fresh articles on the resistance to extractive models of the digital economy policyreview.info/articles/ana... #solidarity #economy
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Ashique Ali T @ashiquealit.bsky.social · 3d
See the intro to the issue here : policyreview.info/articles/ana....
Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies
This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership.
policyreview.info

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Ashique Ali T @ashiquealit.bsky.social · 3d
Our work "Kudumbashree's Lunch Bell project and digital solidarity economy in Kerala, India" (with @prch.bsky.social & Fibin Filal) is published in the special issue on digital solidarity economies etd by María Belén Albornoz, @ricardespelt.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian
Kudumbashree's Lunch Bell project and digital solidarity economy in Kerala, India
This study examines the Lunch Bell project, a state-supported, women-centred meal delivery platform in Kerala, India, embodying a digital solidarity economy that promotes sustainability and addresses ...
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 4d
💥 Digital Solidarity Economies. New special issue published in Internet Policy Review. Open access.

Editors: Belen Albornoz, Ricard Espelt, Rafael Grohmann and Denise Kasparian
policyreview.info/articles/ana...
Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies
This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership.
policyreview.info

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Germana Viana @germana-fazgibi.bsky.social · 10d
DIA DO QUADRINHO NACIONAL, tome gibi de graça:
Outros mundos tecnológicos são possíveis
@grohmannrafael.bsky.social (idealização)
Nat Sierpinski (roteiro)
@germana-fazgibi.bsky.social (arte)

@tecnologiamtst.bsky.social
www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq
#comics #quadrinhos #BRArt
(tem + vem no trem)
capa da HQ Outros Mundos Tecnológicos são Possíveis. Ilustração colorida: uma mocinha negra de cabelos longos e pretos, vestindo camiseta branca e calça jeans segura um celular em nossa direção, mostrando o logotipo do MTST Página de quadrinhos colorido que mostra uma ocupação. Em uma das casas, duas mulheres conversam enquanto uma delas cozinha. A mais jovem é a mesma mocinha da capa, descrita na imagem anterior, a que está cozinhando é uma mulher negra de meia idade, cabelos negros cacheados com alguns fios grisalhos pouco acima dos ombros

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Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · 12d
Check out @grohmannrafael.bsky.social's contribution to our forum on "Democratic Left Futures" for real world examples of "solidarity in action" against the dystopia of big tech fascism!

academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
Solidarity in action: building worker-owned intersectional platforms in Latin America
Abstract. The project Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) (Grohmann et al., 2025) brought together six organizations from Brazil and Argentina in
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 13d
First was an interesting talk by @andretwp.bsky.social on Nairobi's tech ecosystems and its complex connections with China at @grohmannrafael.bsky.social's DigiLabour lab www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wkm... (2/6)
Silicon Elsewhere, Book Talk with Andrea Pollio
YouTube video by DigiLabour
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Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social · 25d
Muchísimas gracias @grohmannrafael.bsky.social por la invitación y el espacio para exponer nuestras miradas sobre toda la problemática en torno a la IA y especialmente a la IA generativa en cuanto a su impacto y afectaciones a nuestros trabajos y a nuestras vidas.

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Arte es Ética presente en el Workers Governing Technologies workshop – Arte es Ética
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 26d
Looking forward to 4S in Toronto!

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 26d
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

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About the Conference
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Kurt Vandaele @kurtvandaele.bsky.social · Jan 6
Congratulations to the editors.
Chapter 35 in Section Six is on the ‘Unionisation of Digital Labour’
grohmannrafael.bsky.social Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Jan 6
🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett.

us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Jan 6
🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett.

us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...

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Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social · Dec 29
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
Cover of Handbook of Digital Labour.

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Dec 26
Solidarity in action: building worker-owned intersectional platforms in Latin America.

Interview published in the journal Communication, Culture & Critique

doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Dec 26
Materia da MundoCoop sobre a conferencia Cooperative AI que aconteceu em Istanbul em novembro

mundocoop.com.br/destaque/coo...
Cooperativas apresentam modelo de IA democrática como alternativa às big techs
A corrida desenfreada para o desenvolvimento da inteligência artificial continua a provocar alarme generalizado sobre o seu potencial impacto – no consumo de
mundocoop.com.br

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · Dec 23
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.

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Dec 19
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

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Dec 17
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

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OPlanoB @oplanob-icts.bsky.social · Nov 26
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.
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OPlanoB @oplanob-icts.bsky.social · Nov 26
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.

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Lightnews @lightnews.app · Nov 18
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.
EU targets Microsoft and Amazon
Replies by 🎓Benoît Cœuré, 🎓Alberto Alemanno, 🎓Rafael Grohmann +1 more scholars
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Nov 17
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/...
Sovereignty-as-a-service: How big tech companies co-opt and redefines digital sovereignty - Rafael Grohmann, Alexandre Costa Barbosa, 2025
This article introduces the concept of sovereignty-as-a-service to describe how Big Tech companies, specifically Microsoft, Amazon, and Google/Alphabet, are str...
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Nov 16
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...

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Nov 12
💥 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/...

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Nov 11
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!

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Nov 11
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

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · Nov 2
Comic Book Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, with Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil - DigiLabour digilabour.com.br/comic-book-o...
Comic Book Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, with Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil - DigiLabour
DigiLabour and the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST) are launching the comic book Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Volume 1. The comic is available online in Portuguese, English, and...
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · Oct 27
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! ✨

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Oct 26
The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour. Out in December.
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · Oct 3
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