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New research on worker-owned platforms and intersectionality

DigiLabour announces that it has received the first research funding in Canada, the Insight Development Grant, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The research, coordinated by Rafael Grohmann, focuses on worker-owned platforms and intersectionality, an action research…

Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil Launches a Primer on Digital Sovereignty

The Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil (MTST) launched a primer on digital sovereignty. It addresses issues of sovereignty and technology from social movements, workers’ struggles and the majority world. The primer was supported by the University of Toronto through the…

AI as Financial Infrastructure: interview with Edemilson Parana

This Monday, he will give a talk at the University of Toronto

Post-Elections Narratives in Brazil and the Philippines: Cross-Country Learning for Democratic Resilience

By Jose Mari Lanuza, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Rafael Grohmann, Raquel Recuero, Marcelo Alves and Camilla Tavares

Choking creative workers and markets: interview with Rebecca Giblin

Interview on Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How’ll Win Then Back.

Toxic disinformation in informative disorder

Camilla Quesada Tavares’ article on disinformation and election op-ed series

Native advertising, scams and financial frauds monetize Brazilian disinformation industries

How Brazilian disinformation industries and their practices of hate speech, and antidemocratic movements are monetized?

Limits of Decolonial Debate in Internet Research – Online Panel

What are the pitfalls of the decolonial debate, particularly in terms of being co-opted by the colonizers as a brand or a fashion? What is missing from this debate? How can we understand the oversized role of the North in…