Bio
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is leader of DigiLabor and editor-in-chief of Platforms & Society journal. His research focuses on the ways workers are learning to build collectivities and govern digital technologies, such as platforms, data and AI. It also analyzes how Latin American histories – like solidarity economies and community technologies – inform the present and futures of workers. He is the principal investigator of Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) and Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF), on AI and cultural workers. He is also researching how queer and trans studies can inform digital labour research.