DigiLabour produces and curates high-quality research on labour and technology

Currently, DigiLabour is based at the University of Toronto and focuses on platforms, data and artificial intelligence (AI). It both analyzes the impact of platforms, data and AI in various sectors – especially delivery, media, culture and technology – and investigates how workers have built collectivities and technologies through associations, cooperatives, among others.

DigiLabour has at its roots a Latin American perspective to understand technology and labour and aims to address global perspectives on the topic. Some of its values are knowledge mobilization, policy and community-oriented research, impact and internationalization.

DIRECTOR

Rafael Grohmann

🎓 Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University de Toronto.

📗 Co-Director of Critical Digital Methods Institute

📕 Director of Platform Cooperativism Observatory in Brazil

👉 Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects

🌎 Editor of Platforms & Society

 

✉️ rafael.grohmann@utoronto.ca

AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

Évilin Matos

🎓 She has a Master in Communication at the Unisinos University, Brazil

📚 She researchers intersectionality, platforms and media work

👉 Currently, she is a research assistant of a project focused on platform cooperativism in rural areas.

📕 CV

✉️ evilin.matos.jornal@gmail.com

 

Fabricio Barili

🎓 He has a Master in Communication at the Unisinos University, Brazil

📚 He researches surveillance, labour and technology

📕 CV

✉️ fabriciobarili@gmail.com

Cristiano Lima

🎓 He has a Master in Communication at the Unisinos University, Brazil

📚 He researches the role of technologies in the neoliberal rationality

📕 CV

✉️ cristianohm23@edu.unisinos.br

Sarah Tatsch Frankenberger

🎓 She has a Master in Communication at the Unisinos University, Brazil

📚 She researches failure and platforms

📕 CV

✉️ sarahtatsch21@edu.unisinos.br

Gabriel Ferri

🎓 Journalist graduated from the Unisinos University, Brazil.

👉 He researchers cooperatives in the game sector

📕 CV

✉️ gabrielmferri@icloud.com

AFFILIATED FACULTY

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Julice Salvagni

🎓 Associate Professor of Management at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

👉 She researchers gender, platform labour and platform cooperativism.

📕 CV

✉️ julicesalvagni@gmail.com

Roseli Figaro

🎓 Full Professor of Communication at the University of Sao Paulo

📚 Director of Research Center on Communication and Work

👉 She researchers communication and work, media work, datafication of media work, alternative arrangements of media work.

📕 CV

✉️ figaro@uol.com.br