DigiLabour

We just launched a tracker on workers' mobilization around AI in arts, culture and media. It aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns, and other mobilizations. It currently maps 107 unions, associations, collectives, across 25+ countries. creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/resource-files…

A Universidade de Bremen, na Alemanha, divulgou recentemente os sete pesquisadores visitantes internacionais selecionados em seu programa de bolsas de pesquisa para visitantes. Rafael Grohmann, do INCT, foi um dos selecionados entre as mais de 160 candidaturas de todo o mundo.

A Internet Policy Review publicou um dossiê sobre Economias Solidárias Digitais. A edição é coeditada por Rafael Grohmann, pesquisador do INCT-DSI. 👇

💥 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 @alecostabarbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Novo artigo publicado pela Media, Culture & Society trata o conceito de soberania como serviço para descrever como as grandes empresas de tecnologia estão redefinindo estrategicamente a soberania digital por meio de seus programas de infraestrutura em nuvem. ➕

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

Is today’s AI really GLOBAL or just Silicon Valley in disguise? In our new piece “Global AI Cultures” (published by the prestigious Communications of the ACM journal), we argue that AI isn’t neutral. It carries the languages, assumptions, and cultural blind spots of those who build it. If we want AI to serve humanity, it must reflect cultural diversity instead of flattening it. Curious to hear: can AI ever be truly global, or will it always carry local bias? 📷 Read here: cacm.acm.org/opinion/global… by Simone Natale, Federico Biggio, Payal Arora, John Downey, Riccardo Fassone, Rafael Grohmann, Andrea L. Guzman, PhD, Emily Keightley, Deqiang Ji, Dr Vincent Obia, Usha Raman, Paola Ricaurte, Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla and myself

📌 19/08 a las 11 h 💻 evento online Se lanzará el informe Plataformas de Propiedad de Personas Trabajadoras e Interseccionalidad (WOIP), en el cual han trabajado cooperativas de nuestra Federación. ✅ Para saber más seguí a @digilabour #Eventos #Cooperativismo #Plataformas

A greve dos roteiristas de Hollywood em 2023 é o ponto de partida de novo estudo que tem como um dos autores Rafael Grohmann, pesquisador do INCT-DSI. Os pesquisadores propõem uma teorização da governança de inteligência artificial (IA) a partir da perspectiva de trabalhadores.

Rafael Grohmann, do INCT, participou do painel “Da CLT ao corre”, da Bienal do Livro do Rio. O pesquisador debateu com Ana Amélia Camarano, Lilia Guerra e Marquinhos de Oswaldo Cruz as transformações do mundo do trabalho, da formalidade às formas da busca de renda hoje. 👇

Novo artigo de Rafael Grohmann, pesquisador do INCT-DSI, apresenta o conceito de “labor-atories” das economias digitais, destacando a América Latina como um território de experimentação tanto por parte do capital quanto dos trabalhadores. ➕

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/wjds…

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/wjds…

New article published in Big Data & Society. Latin American Critical Data Studies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

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CfP Special Issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI for AI & Society journal, co-edited by me, @d_idiz and @ZoeGlatt. Deadline for sending abstracts: June 30 link.springer.com/journal/146/up…

@wrongrrl and @DigiLabour discuss eugenic intellectual traditions persisting in major parts of Big Tech sector. A valuable talk for those looking at data-driven technology in the context of care, disability, etc. more generally. youtube.com/watch?v=TbyelD…

Big Tech’s data-driven empire is rooted in eugenics under the guise of "optimization." Our video of the week connects today’s AI-fueled surveillance and inequality to early 20th-century racial pseudoscience. With @wrongrrl at @DigiLabour buff.ly/4hE9L2I

Check out our Learning Hub on Feb 24 for Professor Antonio Casilli's book talk on Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation.

Cyber-Marx @25, event with +20 researchers providing provocations and updates on the book. This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM Details here: cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca