Grohmann, R., & Wright, H. (2026). Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries. Media, Culture & Society, 0(0).
Grohmann, R., & Costa Barbosa, A. (2026). Popular digital sovereignty and digital real utopias: Lessons from the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 0(0).
Grohmann, R., & Salvagni, J. (2026). Hire Those Who Struggle: Digital solidarity economies and class struggles in Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement. Capital & Class, 0(0).
Rocha, A., Rios, D., Idiz, D. R., & Grohmann, R. Dubbed over: The struggles of Brazilian voice actors towards a worker-led AI governance. AI & Society.
Benedito, F., Boava, A., Os, A., Martínez, A. M., Muñoz Cancela, C., Ficher, E., Freire, G., Renato Alves, J., Arcuri, L., Petrica, N., Adami Pereira, M., Minamizawa, P., & Grohmann, R. (2026). Building Worker-Owned Technologies in Latin America: Shared Learning, Intersectionality, and Collective Futures. Journal of Labor and Society, 0(0).
Salvagni, J., & Grohmann, R. (2026) Data Work for Beginners: Neoliberal Pedagogies and the Circulation of Platform Labor. Journal of Sociology, 0(0).
Albornoz, B., Espelt, R., Grohmann, R. & Kasparian, D. (2026). Digital Solidarity Economies. Internet Policy Review 15 (1).
Anwar, M. A., Thylstrup, N. B., Grohmann, R., & Posada, J. (2026). Towards a new paradigm of “datafied development”: Epistemic, infrastructural, economic, and geopolitical domains. Big Data & Society, 13(2).
Grohmann, R., Aquino, M. C., Rodrigues, A., Matos, E., Govari, C., & Amaral, A. . Click farm as platform labor: Human bots in parasite platforms. Media International Australia, 0(0)
Grohmann, R., & Costa Barbosa, A. (2025). Sovereignty-as-a-service: How big tech companies co-opt and redefine digital sovereignty. Media, Culture & Society. Online first.
Grohmann, R., Rocha, A. C., & Guilherme, G. Worker-led AI governance: Hollywood writers’ strikes and the worker power. Information, Communication & Society. Online first.
Grohmann, R. (2025). Latin American Critical Data Studies. Big Data & Society. Online first.
Grohmann, R. (2025). Labor-atories of Digital Economies: Latin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(1).
Natale, S., Biggio, F., Arora, P., Downey, J., Fassone, R., Grohmann, R., Guzman, A., Keightley, E., Ji, D., Obia, V., Przegalińska, A., Raman, U., Ricaurte, P., & Villanueva-Mansilla, E. (2025). Global AI cultures. Communications of the ACM. Online first.
Grohmann, R., Paraná, E., Valente, J. C., & Figaro, R. (2025). AI Policy Debates in Brazil: Struggles Over Regulation, Governance and Labour. Global Political Economy. Online first.
Grohmann, R., Muñoz Cancela, C., Alves, J. R., Pereira, M. A., & Arcuri, L. (2025). Solidarity in action: Building worker-owned intersectional platforms in Latin America. Communication, Culture and Critique, 18(4), 285–289.
Rocha, A. C., Woodcock, J., & Grohmann, R. (2025). Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts. Globalizations, 1–18.
Grohmann, R., Burity, P., & Vilarins, L. (2025). Soberania Popular e Autonomia : Diferentes Sentidos e Consequências para Políticas Digitais. Comunicação Mídia E Consumo, 22(65).
Nichols, B. & Grohmann, R. (2025). Fighting Disinformation in a Structural Way: a case study of the Desinformante as an organizational model. Brazilian Journalism Research, 21 (1).
Karhawi, I. & Grohmann, R. (2024). Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil. International Journal of Cultural Studies. Online first.
Grohmann, R. & Ong, J. (2024). Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor: Introduction to the Special Issue. Social Media + Society, 10 (1)
Valente, J. & Grohmann, R. (2024). Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism. Big Data & Society. Online first.
Vilasis-Pamos, J., Pires de Sa, F., Grohmann, R. & Araujo, W. (2024). Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Online First.
Broves, O., Kang, M., Grohmann, R., Barcellos, V., Mano, F., Yoon, C. & Jamil, R. (2024). Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action. Sociology Compass, 18 (2).
Chen, J., van Doorn, N., Grohmann, R., Pollio, A., & Soriano, C. (2024). Introducing Platforms & Society. Platforms & Society, 1.
Salvagni, J., Grohmann, R. & Mendonca, V. (2024). Contrate quem luta: movimento dos trabalhadores sem-teto, tecnologias e economia digital solidária. Sociedade & Estado, 39 (3).
Grohmann, R., Schneider, M. & Amadeu, S. (2024). Soberania e Inteligência Artificial: perspectivas brasileiras. Liinc em Revista, 24 (2).
Grohmann, R. (2023). Not Just Platform, Nor Cooperatives: Worker-Owned Technologies from Below. Communication, Culture & Critique, 16 (4), 274-282.
Grohmann, R., Mendonca, M. & Woodcock, J. (2023). Communication and Work From Below: The Role of Communication in Organizing Delivery Platform Workers. International Journal of Communication, 17 (19).
Rebechi, C., Valente, J., Salvagni, J., Grohmann, R., Carelli, R. & Figaro, R. (2023). Trabalho decente no contexto das plataformas digitais: uma pesquisa-ação do Projeto Fairwork no Brasil. Revista do Servico Publico, 74 (2), 370-389.
Grohmann, R., Pereira, G., Guerra, A., Abílio, L. C., Moreschi, B., & Jurno, A. (2022). Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management. New Media & Society, 24(7), 1611–1631.
Grohmann, R., Aquino, M. C., Rodrigues, A., Matos, É., Govari, C., & Amaral, A. (2022). Click farm platforms: An updating of informal work in Brazil and Colombia. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 16(2), 7–20.
Salvagni, J., Grohmann, R. & Matos, E. (2022). Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain. Gender & Development, 30(3), 707–724.
Zanforlin, S., & Grohmann, R. (2022). On-demand migrants: entrepreneurialism, platformization and migration in Brazil. International Journal of Communication, 16, 5520–5537.
Grohmann, R. (2022). Cooperativas de Jornalistas na Ibero-América: mapeamento e reflexões metodológicas. Estudos em Jornalismo e Midia.
Mendonça, M., Woodcock, J. & Grohmann, R. (2022). Composição de classe e migração para entender o trabalho por plataformas: o caso dos entregadores brasileiros no Reino Unido. Caderno CRH, 35 (1)
Matos, É. & Grohmann, R. (2022). Mulheres Estagiárias em Jornalismo: análise a partir da perspectiva interseccional. Mídia e Cotidiano, 16 (3)
Grohmann, R. (2021). Riders’ Platforms: Cooperatives of delivery workers in Spain, France and Brazil. South Atlantic Quarterly.
Abílio, L., Grohmann, R., & Weiss, H. (2021). Struggles of delivery workers in Brazil: Working conditions and collective organization during the pandemic. Journal of Labor and Society.
Grohmann, R., Nonato, C., Marques, A. F. & Acosta, C. (2021). Media strategies of labor platforms: Circulation of meanings in social media of companies in Brazil. Comunicação & Sociedade (Portugal).
Grohmann, R. (2021). Trabalho digital: o papel organizador da comunicação. Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo, 18 (1).
Abílio, L., Amorim, H., & Grohmann, R. (2021). Uberização e plataformização do trabalho no Brasil: conceitos, processos e formas. Sociologias, 23 (2).
Grohmann, R., & Araújo, W. (2021). O chão de fábrica (brasileiro) da inteligência artificial: a produção de dados e o papel da comunicação entre trabalhadores de Appen e Lionbridge. Palabra Clave, 24 (3).
Grohmann, R. & Qiu, J. (2020). Contextualizing Platform Labor. Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication, 15 (1).
Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Grohmann, R., Salem, N., Carelli, R., Abs, D., Salvagni, J., Graham, M., Albornoz, M., Chavez, H., Arriagada, A. & Bonhomme, M. (2020). ‘Just because you don’t see your boss, doesn’t mean you don’t have a boss’: Covid-19 and Gig Worker Strikes across Latin America. International Union Rights, 27 (3), 20-28.
Grohmann, R. (2020). Plataformização do trabalho: entre dataficação, financeirização e racionalidade neoliberal. Eptic, 22 (1).
Grohmann, R. (2020). A dança dialética do trabalho em uma cooperativa de jornalistas: o caso do Tiempo Argentino. Estudos de Jornalismo e Mídia, 18 (2).
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