Rafael Grohmann
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Assistant Professor Media Studies University of Toronto. Platform labor, workers' organizing, platform co-ops, AI & labor, data work @DigiLabour Fairwork🇧🇷
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Not just platform, nor cooperatives: worker-owned technologies from below. New article published by Communication, Culture & Critique. If you need a copy, let me know.
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✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me,
@nielsvdoorn
,
@chesoriano
,
@andretwp
&
@woshihama
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I'm so thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the University of Toronto (
@UofT
) as an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform and Data Studies, with a graduate appointment at Faculty of Information, starting September 1st
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OUT new collective book, Resisting Data Colonialism: a practical intervention, by Tierra Comun Network
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Platforms & Society journal will be launched soon!
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We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with us in our Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project at the University of Toronto.
Deadline for application: Sep 20
Details here:
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O PPG Comunicação da
@Unisinos
é nota 7, o máximo possível, na avaliação quadrienal da CAPES 2017-2020. E foi descontinuado pela universidade! Só 3 programas da área tem 7: UFRJ, UFF e Unisinos
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Saiu o resultado final do edital universal do CNPq, com proposta nossa aprovada em 1o lugar - redes emergentes na área de comunicação. Pesquisa sobre trabalho por plataformas coordenada pela UNISINOS com UFC, UFRJ, UTFPR, UFC, UFF, UFES, UEMG, UFRGS, USP e redes internacionais!
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Our article on this amazing New Media & Society's special issue about scams, fake and frauds, edited by Winifred Poster.
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💥New publication: Critical Data Studies With Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialism, in Big Data & Society, by
@jonasvalente
& I
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New Special Issue Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor in Social Media + Society edited by me and
@jonathan_c_ong
. The introductory essay + 2 articles are already available. More to come!
@SocialMedia_Soc
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Since today I'm spending one month at the Weizenbaum Institut
@JWI_Berlin
as a research fellow. I'll be working on my book project and collaborating with "Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics" and "Working with Artificial Intelligence" working groups
@MilagrosMiceli
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Disinformation and 2022 Elections in Brazil: lessons learned from a South-to-South contexto. New report published by
@inct_dsi
and written by
@raquelrecuero
@marceloufsj
@camillatavares
and I
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Quer fazer mestrado ou doutorado? Interessa-se por áreas como trabalho em plataformas, economia digital, IA, dados, algoritmos e cooperativismo? 28/9 sai edital para seleção no mestrado e doutorado em Comunicação da UNISINOS (nota 6), entre os quatro mais bem avaliados do país
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R.I.P. Vincent Mosco, a founding researcher in the political economy of communication. In addition to his vast and strong research trajectory, he was very generous, especially with early career researchers, which I experienced myself.
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Read the first editorial of Platforms & Society.
@woshihama
@nielsvdoorn
@andretwp
@chesoriano
and I
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The journal Work, Employment and Society decided to have me as a new editorial board member for the next four years. Looking forward to the next steps there!
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Platform sub-imperialism. New piece in our special issue for Big Data & Society by
@kenzosoares
, articulating Marxist theory of dependency and platform studies
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The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto offers fully funded PhD student positions to study with me in Digital Labor, Workers’ Organizing, AI & labor, Platforms, Solidarity Economy & Tech Sovereignty. Deadline Dec. 1
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"Why AI is a feminist issue?" Excellent project by
@CodingRights
@joana_varon
with amazing resources (I'm assigning this text in one of my Winter courses)
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New publication: Workers organizing in the platform economy:
Local forms and global trends of collective action. Sociology Compass journal
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Happy to receive Connaught New Researcher Award, from
@UofT
, for a project on gender and worker-owned platforms in Brazil and Argentina
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Acabei de assinar contrato com editora para livro de introdução aos debates sobre trabalho e plataformas digitais. Em breve!
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Já disponível o livro Trabalho por Plataformas Digitais pelas Edições SESC. Uma introdução ao tema
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💥 News! Finally I can announce the start of a new SSHRC-funded research: Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms, an action research with delivery and tech workers in Brazil and Argentina, with me as PI,
@gamespacenl
as Co-I.
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José van Dijck wrote a commentary for our Platforms & Society journal. This is the first of a few commentaries we will publish in the coming months.
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Limits of Decolonial Debate in Internet Studies online hosted by
@DigiLabour
@CriticalDigita3
@utscarts
with
@Abebab
@tarciziosilva
@chesoriano
Anita Gurumurthy
@chicanocyborg
@DrSyedMustafaA1
Walter Lippold, chaired by
@gabrielopereira
and I. Register
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Excited to announce that I'm joining the editorial board of Big Data & Society journal
@BigDataSoc
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New article, "Communication and Work from Below: The Role of Communication in Organizing Delivery Platform Workers", International Journal of Communication, with Mateus Mendonça and
@jamie_woodcock
. SI edited by Julie Chen,
@adelfanti
and Michelle Phan
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Com uma pequena contribuição minha
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Tradução minha e do Lucas Milanez para a Jacobin Brasil
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Fomos contemplados com financiamento da FAPERGS para pesquisar e prototipar plataformas cooperativas com entregadores no Rio Grande do Sul. Ele se soma a outros financiamentos no âmbito do
@DigiLabour
: IT for Change, Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo, University of Cambridge e CNPq
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My former master student
@fabriciobarili
just published his first solo-authored article in
@IJoC_USC
as a result of his master thesis, supervised by me, on platformization of worker surveillance
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The second one is by Paola Ricaurte,
@Imagenaciones
and
@isiles
. Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism
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Publication of a new special issue (another one!): Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices, and Workers' Organisation, Convergence journal, edited by
@J_VilasisPamos
@fernandapiressa
@willianaraujo
and I. This is the introduction
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Resenha do livro Marx no Fliperama, do
@jamie_woodcock
em breve em português pela
@AutonomiaLiter2
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Plataformas controladas por trabalhadores. Capítulo do livro Icebergs a Deriva, organizado por Ricardo Antunes, na
@editoraboitempo
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New editorial board member of Communication, Culture and Critique journal
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Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach. Article by
@AndreaMMedrado
&
@pverdegem
in our special issue for
@BigDataSoc
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💥 New article! Struggling with Platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil, with
@issaafkarhawi
, published in
@IJCS_journal
, Platforms and Cultural Production SI, edited by
@artarriagada
@tpoell
@gamespacenl
and others
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New
@s_lehuede
article on digital sovereignty framework and the decolonial option. Part of the Special Issue I'm editing for Big Data & Society on Critical data studies in Latin America
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promove seminário para lançamento de consulta pública sobre regulação de plataformas digitais no país
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New articles in the special issue on disinformation-for-hire as everyday digital labor edited by me and
@jonathan_c_ong
: “It Was Very Hard for Me to Keep Doing That Job”: Understanding Troll Farm’s Working in the Arab World. By Marina Ayeb and
@tbonini
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Excellent new article "Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures" by
@msteinbrg
@LinZhang9
and
@rahul_mukh
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Our working group for the 2024-2025 season: Theories and Praxis of Digital Labour: The Fault Lines in Digital Capitalism
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Important article on participatory worker data science for platform workers by Cailean Gallagher, Karen Gregory and Boyan Karabaliev
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💥 New project! Creative Labour and Critical Futures, led by me &
@meluka01
with a stellar group, such as
@gamespacenl
@raultishness
@hadiyaroderique
among others, on AI & workers in arts, culture and media sectors. More soon!
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First article of the special issue on Big Data & AI in Latin America I'm editing for Big Data & Society journal. "Data artivism and feminicide", by
@ladelentes
@kanarinka
@JimenaAcostaR
@meltengg
and
@SilvanavF
. More soon!
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My paper "Platformizing Delivery Workers' Experiences: Building Worker-Owned Platforms in Brazil, Spain and France” got accepted to
#AoIR2021
! So excited! Looking forward to discussing this research with you
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New article! Gendering Platform Co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain.
Gender and Development journal in special issue focused on Women, Work and the digital economy
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Looking for
#PhD
students for Fall2024 on digital labour/platform labour stuff. Apply to
@UofTInfoFaculty
Deadline December 1
Apply to a unique, interdisciplinary PhD program!
Our PhD program allows students to pursue high-level research at the intersections of information, technology, culture, people, and communities. Next application deadline is December 1, 2023. Learn more:
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Good New article by
@silvertje
,
@fvandervlist
and
@fabianlferrari
for
@BigDataSoc
on industrialization of AI and the role of major tech conglomerates and their infrastructure
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Table of contents, special issue Disinformation-for-hire as Everyday Digital Labor I edited with
@jonathan_c_ong
for
@SocialMedia_Soc
journal
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Entrevista que concedi à Gaúcha ZH sobre as pesquisas que temos desenvolvido: plataformização do trabalho, fazendas de clique, Fairwork, cooperativismo de plataforma...
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Livro Trabalho por Plataformas Digitais, de autoria minha e de Julice Salvagni, sairá em breve pelas Edições SESC. Um livro introdutório ao tema. Acabou de sair a capa. Mais notícias nos próximos dias
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Já em pré-venda o livro Os Laboratórios do Trabalho Digital, pela editora
@editoraboitempo
, fruto das nossas atividades no
@DigiLabour
. 38 entrevistas com grandes pesquisadoras e pesquisadores + capítulo introdutório meu
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Two new articles published in the special issue I'm editing (yes, another one) for
@BigDataSoc
on critical data studies in Latin America. Oscar D'Alva and
@parana_
"Official statistics and big data in Latin America: Data enclosures and counter-movements"
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Texto meu e da Paula Alves na Jacobin contextualizando a greve dos entregadores
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Come work with me at UofT! Some more Faculty Vacancies (asst and assoc rankings): Policy Studies (with focus on data/technology/information...), Information and Technology Studies (critical algorithm studies, social aspects of AI...), UX Design...
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Matéria que escrevi pra Jacobin Brasil. Tem entrevistas com
@means_tv
,
@PPU512
,
@jamie_woodcock
,
@bolittow
,
@fabriciobarili
@JacobinBrasil
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Proud supervisor! My former master student
@fabriciobarili
got an acceptance of his first solo-authored article in a journal - International Journal of Communication. Now he's looking for PhD programs!
Muito feliz por ver a minha pesquisa de mestrado ser aceita e publicada no international Journal of Communication (IJOC). Um agradecimento especial ao meu orientador e amigo
@grohmann_rafael
por todo o apoio, orientação e confiança.
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Hybrid event at
@oiioxford
with me and
@jonasvalente
. Critical Data Studies with Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialismo, based on the article we published in
@BigDataSoc
. May 8. Join us!
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Meeting with Brazilian Minister of Labour on AI & Labour. The Ministry just launched a working group on the topic, and I talked about the work we are doing with data workers and tracking AI policies - under a new Observatory. More soon!
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Next Monday, DigiLabour will launch two animated videos about click farms. In two episodes, it tells the story of Joana, who lost her job and starts working for these platforms with the function of clicking and commenting on profiles of influencers, celebrities and politicians.
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Oficialmente como pesquisador do projeto Histories of AI, da Universidade de Cambridge, a partir de um grant concedido por eles
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A partir de agora, contribuo mensalmente com o blog da
@editoraboitempo
. Na estreia, comento os nomes que circulam em torno de trabalho e plataformas: gig economy, uberização, plataformização, trabalho digital, trabalho por plataformas e suas variações
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In Amsterdam for Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor & Social Reproduction conference. Looking forward to meeting all this amazing people!
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New book chapter: How Fair Are Digital Labor Platforms in Brazil? Evidence from Fairwork Brazil
@TowardsFairWork
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Talk this Wednesday 5PM UK/ 1PM BRT/ noon EST at
@oiioxford
with me and
@jonasvalente
. Critical Data Studies with Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialism, based on the article we published in
@BigDataSoc
. Hybrid event. Join us!
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FAPESP lança novo edital em parceria com CGI e Min de C&T para apoiar pesquisas estratégicas sobre internet, incluindo cultura digital, software livre, dados abertos, políticas de internet. Até 1/7 e pode ser coord. por pessoa de qualquer parte do Brasil
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Stay tuned! We will soon announce a new journal! And you will certainly be interested in it
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A global and transhistorical view of artificial intelligence: labor and Rights. Tomorrow, Columbia University
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Next week I'll be in Rio de Janeiro to give a talk on worker-owned platforms and learnings from Latin America. This is part of amazing Platform Cooperativism Conference
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April 30, talk at University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, on decent work in the digital economy addressing Platforms and AI
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What I'm doing as a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute
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Na última edição da revista Fronteiras - Estudos Midiáticos, do PPG em Comunicação da UNISINOS, traduzimos três textos que consideramos fundamentais para debates sobre cultura digital. Segue o fio:
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Lançamento do app Meu Corre, que permite a entregadores controlarem despesas e ganhos, com dados que permitem conhecer condições de trabalho, possibilitando tomada de decisão mais qualificada sobre onde e como trabalhar. Dia 15!
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Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil just launched a toolkit on digital sovereignty as a notion from social movements and worker struggles. Supported by University of Toronto / DigiLabour
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Chegou o livro Uberização, Trabalho Digital e Indústria 4.0, pela
@editoraboitempo
, com muita gente bacana, como
@jamie_woodcock
,
@geoplace
,
@ricardofesti
, Ludmila Abilio. Contribuo com capítulo sobre plataformização do trabalho, seus cenários e possibilidades de alternativas
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Intercept Brasil inicia série de reportagens sobre chão de fábrica da IA
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Call for papers, special issues on digital platforms: a thread 👇👇
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Com muita alegria, a partir de agora passo a fazer parte do Conselho do Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, da University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), dirigido por
@safiyanoble
e
@ubiquity75
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For those based in Montreal. I'll be there at McGill University Nov 20 for a talk "Workers Governing Platforms and AI". If you are around, join us!
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Os entregadores brasileiros estão se mobilizando para construir cooperativas de plataforma. E já há coletivos e cooperativas de entregadores no país
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Tomorrow, here in Berlin, I'll give the talk Experimenting, Failing, Organizing: Workers Learning to Govern Platforms
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Finishing my insightful period as a fellow at
@JWI_Berlin
. It was a period of a lot of writing, collaborations and meetings in Berlin. Thanks especially to the working groups that hosted me, Working with AI and Data, Algorithms, Ethics
@MilagrosMiceli
. I'll be back in Berlin soon
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Plano de Ação para o Cooperativismo de Plataforma no Brasil é entregue a Lula por Bruna Sampaio, entregadora do coletivo Señoritas Courier. O texto está disponível no site do DigiLabour
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Entrevista que eu dei para o Estadão. Conversamos sobre políticas públicas para cooperativismo de plataforma/economia digital solidaria, regulação de IA e do trabalho por plataformas
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CfP for Conference of International Network of Digital Labor
@INDL_Official
is out! The event will be in Santiago, late October. Deadline to submit 400-word abstract is May 31 (English, Spanish or Portuguese)
This event last year in Berlin was amazing!
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My talk last week at
@JWI_Berlin
on politics & pedagogies of failure. More soon! 📸
@TowardsFairWork
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Vem aí cooperativismo de plataforma como política pública? "Secretaria de Economia Solidária. Idealizado para promoção de políticas voltadas a trabalhadores de plataformas, como motoristas e entregadores, o órgão deverá ter destaque no governo do PT"
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Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world. Read our editorial here. More soon!
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No Estadão impresso de hoje sobre a necessidade de incluir trabalhadores anotadores de dados na regulação de IA
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