Subverting the algorithm, pleasing followers: engagement campaigns of Brazilian digital influencers on Instagram

Issaaf Karhawi’s article on engagement campaigns of influencers

Masculinities and platform labor in India

Interview with Sai Amulya Komarraju

The Digital Factory: interview with Moritz Altenried

Moritz Altenried is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and researches platform labor in three European projects, Digitalisation of Labour and Migration, Platform Labour in Urban Spaces (PLUS) and Fairwork. He recently released the book The Digital Factory: the…

Platform socialism: interview wih James Muldoon

Guild socialism for digital economy, civic platforms, prototyping…

10 quotes from the book Platforms and Cultural Production

Thomas Poell, David Nieborg and Brooke Erin Duffy have released their new book, Platforms and Cultural Production. The general focus is how platformization affects cultural production, especially with changes in institutions and cultural practices. The authors identify key changes in…

Marxism and Work in the AI Industry: Interview with James Steinhoff:

James Steinhoff is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He is interested in applying (and updating) the Labour Process Theory framework to analyze the production of AI and its automation with technologies such as automated machine learning (AutoML).…

Microwork in the global South, the motor of platform capitalism: interview with Phil Jones

Author of Work Without the Worker: Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism

Talk on Disinformation-for-Hire and Click Farming

With Jonathan Corpus Ong and Rafael Grohmann

Is fair work possible on cloudwork platforms?

The following op-ed is based on the results of the Fairwork Cloudwork 2021 report by Kelle Howson, Hannah Johnston, Nancy Salem, Robbie Warin, Fabian Ferrari, Yihan Zhu, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Daniel Arubayi, Srujana Katta, Shelly Steward, Matthew Cole,…

Click Farm Platforms: how they work

Ongoing research in Brazil conducted by DigiLabour Research Lab