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The journal is online and open access! We welcome intersectional, cross-disciplinary, and geographically diverse perspectives on platformization and the dynamic relationship between platforms and societies! Submissions with a range of critical approaches are all welcome!

AI workers in Kenya are organizing on multiple fronts, calling attention to how U.S. tech companies like ScaleAI & Meta are undermining labor laws. Read their letter calling on President Biden to fight for improved pay, conditions, and safety on the job: foxglove.org.uk/open-letter-to…

Digital worker inquiry and the critical potential of participatory worker data science for on-demand platform workers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New article: "Diversity Through Precarity? Race, Gender, and Work in Digital Journalism." Co-authored with Shannon Clarke in the new issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication. DM me for a copy if you'd like. cjc.utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/cj…

happening now. Anyone cares about digital labour issues should come and learn from these data workers

New report out! I have been talking about how AI is affecing work in China for almost two years and the report is finally available! Find out more about how AI is reshaping the power imbalance between workers and employees in China.

Companies are adopting AI job interviewers to handle job applications. Critics say the opaque LLMs raise serious concerns about bias, particularly where there is no documentation about how a decision is made restofworld.org/2024/ai-interv…

My piece, "The Racial Labour Geographies of Amazon in Canada’s Greater Toronto Area" is now online. I share it with excitement and trepidation! alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/a…

Check out a compelling commentary by Devika Narayan published in Platforms & Society Platforms & Society

Our first original research article on the algorithmic management of house-cleaning platform labour journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Thanks to Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK , Mark McGurl, Jamie and Sherryl Vint for saying nice things. It's great to get The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers out in the world! Available as text, audio and pint-on-demand - afteramazon.world

Job seekers! My department is hiring a game studies prof. Application due Nov. 6. ICCIT jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

Another commentary is out: this time Brett Neilson discusses consolidation as an entry point to the study of the political economy of platforms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

How are visibility and ephemerality negotiated by feminist activists in their platformed acts of engagement? Sofia P. Caldeira - @sofiapcaldeira.bsky.social writes about this in a new research article hot off the press journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

A series of events in Toronto involving artists, academics, and activists to explore the intersections of time, labor, technology and decolonial strategies in a fashion of forming "temporal insurgency". Join us for Bad Timekeepers, 10/19 – 23 & 11/7, 2024 akimbo.ca/listings/bad-t…

We are very glad to share two new commentaries as part of our inaugural essays. Edemilson Paraná writes about platforms at the finance-technology nexus: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29… and Nick Srnicek writes about the new conglomerates" dominating platform capitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Texts have paratexts. Platforms have paraplatforms - and we need to think through them. New research objects and angles appear as we do. That's what I argue in this short commentary for this great new journal Platforms & Society . Please take a read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Nelanthi Hewa and I have a new paper out: "Controlled connection: Substack and writers of color." Happy to share a copy with anyone interested who can't access at this link academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

New article published in the Platforms & Society journal. The platformization of the follower factory: para-platforms, automation, and labor in the market for social media engagements, by Esther Weltevrede and Johan Lindquist Platforms & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

The ICCIT is hiring an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Design and Production. Details about the position can be found in the formal job call: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…