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Rafael Grohmann

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Assistant Professor Media Studies University of Toronto. Platform labor, workers' organizing, platform co-ops, AI & labor, data work @DigiLabour Fairwork🇧🇷

Toronto, Ontario
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Not just platform, nor cooperatives: worker-owned technologies from below. New article published by Communication, Culture & Critique. If you need a copy, let me know.
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✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, @nielsvdoorn , @chesoriano , @andretwp & @woshihama
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I'm so thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the University of Toronto ( @UofT ) as an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform and Data Studies, with a graduate appointment at Faculty of Information, starting September 1st
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OUT new collective book, Resisting Data Colonialism: a practical intervention, by Tierra Comun Network
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Platforms & Society journal will be launched soon!
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O PPG Comunicação da @Unisinos é nota 7, o máximo possível, na avaliação quadrienal da CAPES 2017-2020. E foi descontinuado pela universidade! Só 3 programas da área tem 7: UFRJ, UFF e Unisinos
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Saiu o resultado final do edital universal do CNPq, com proposta nossa aprovada em 1o lugar - redes emergentes na área de comunicação. Pesquisa sobre trabalho por plataformas coordenada pela UNISINOS com UFC, UFRJ, UTFPR, UFC, UFF, UFES, UEMG, UFRGS, USP e redes internacionais!
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Our article on this amazing New Media & Society's special issue about scams, fake and frauds, edited by Winifred Poster.
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💥New publication: Critical Data Studies With Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialism, in Big Data & Society, by @jonasvalente & I
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New Special Issue Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor in Social Media + Society edited by me and @jonathan_c_ong . The introductory essay + 2 articles are already available. More to come! @SocialMedia_Soc
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Disinformation and 2022 Elections in Brazil: lessons learned from a South-to-South contexto. New report published by @inct_dsi and written by @raquelrecuero @marceloufsj @camillatavares and I
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Quer fazer mestrado ou doutorado? Interessa-se por áreas como trabalho em plataformas, economia digital, IA, dados, algoritmos e cooperativismo? 28/9 sai edital para seleção no mestrado e doutorado em Comunicação da UNISINOS (nota 6), entre os quatro mais bem avaliados do país
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R.I.P. Vincent Mosco, a founding researcher in the political economy of communication. In addition to his vast and strong research trajectory, he was very generous, especially with early career researchers, which I experienced myself.
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Read the first editorial of Platforms & Society. @woshihama @nielsvdoorn @andretwp @chesoriano and I
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The journal Work, Employment and Society decided to have me as a new editorial board member for the next four years. Looking forward to the next steps there!
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Platform sub-imperialism. New piece in our special issue for Big Data & Society by @kenzosoares , articulating Marxist theory of dependency and platform studies
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The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto offers fully funded PhD student positions to study with me in Digital Labor, Workers’ Organizing, AI & labor, Platforms, Solidarity Economy & Tech Sovereignty. Deadline Dec. 1
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Starting to read @tbonini and @EmilianoTrere . Congrats! Open access here:
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New publication: Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action. Sociology Compass journal
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Happy to receive Connaught New Researcher Award, from @UofT , for a project on gender and worker-owned platforms in Brazil and Argentina
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💥 News! Finally I can announce the start of a new SSHRC-funded research: Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms, an action research with delivery and tech workers in Brazil and Argentina, with me as PI, @gamespacenl as Co-I.
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Acabei de assinar contrato com editora para livro de introdução aos debates sobre trabalho e plataformas digitais. Em breve!
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Já disponível o livro Trabalho por Plataformas Digitais pelas Edições SESC. Uma introdução ao tema
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3 years
Excited to announce that I'm joining the editorial board of Big Data & Society journal @BigDataSoc
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José van Dijck wrote a commentary for our Platforms & Society journal. This is the first of a few commentaries we will publish in the coming months.
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New article, "Communication and Work from Below: The Role of Communication in Organizing Delivery Platform Workers", International Journal of Communication, with Mateus Mendonça and @jamie_woodcock . SI edited by Julie Chen, @adelfanti and Michelle Phan
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2 years
Limits of Decolonial Debate in Internet Studies online hosted by @DigiLabour @CriticalDigita3 @utscarts with @Abebab @tarciziosilva @chesoriano Anita Gurumurthy @chicanocyborg @DrSyedMustafaA1 Walter Lippold, chaired by @gabrielopereira and I. Register
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Fomos contemplados com financiamento da FAPERGS para pesquisar e prototipar plataformas cooperativas com entregadores no Rio Grande do Sul. Ele se soma a outros financiamentos no âmbito do @DigiLabour : IT for Change, Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo, University of Cambridge e CNPq
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The second one is by Paola Ricaurte, @Imagenaciones and @isiles . Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism
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Plataformas controladas por trabalhadores. Capítulo do livro Icebergs a Deriva, organizado por Ricardo Antunes, na @editoraboitempo
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Publication of a new special issue (another one!): Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices, and Workers' Organisation, Convergence journal, edited by @J_VilasisPamos @fernandapiressa @willianaraujo and I. This is the introduction
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New editorial board member of Communication, Culture and Critique journal
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Na Folha impressa
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Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach. Article by @AndreaMMedrado & @pverdegem in our special issue for @BigDataSoc
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New @s_lehuede article on digital sovereignty framework and the decolonial option. Part of the Special Issue I'm editing for Big Data & Society on Critical data studies in Latin America
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promove seminário para lançamento de consulta pública sobre regulação de plataformas digitais no país
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New articles in the special issue on disinformation-for-hire as everyday digital labor edited by me and @jonathan_c_ong : “It Was Very Hard for Me to Keep Doing That Job”: Understanding Troll Farm’s Working in the Arab World. By Marina Ayeb and @tbonini
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Important article on participatory worker data science for platform workers by Cailean Gallagher, Karen Gregory and Boyan Karabaliev
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3 years
My paper "Platformizing Delivery Workers' Experiences: Building Worker-Owned Platforms in Brazil, Spain and France” got accepted to #AoIR2021 ! So excited! Looking forward to discussing this research with you
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New article! Gendering Platform Co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain. Gender and Development journal in special issue focused on Women, Work and the digital economy
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Looking for #PhD students for Fall2024 on digital labour/platform labour stuff. Apply to @UofTInfoFaculty Deadline December 1
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University of Toronto Faculty of Information
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Apply to a unique, interdisciplinary PhD program! Our PhD program allows students to pursue high-level research at the intersections of information, technology, culture, people, and communities. Next application deadline is December 1, 2023. Learn more:
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Good New article by @silvertje , @fvandervlist and @fabianlferrari for @BigDataSoc on industrialization of AI and the role of major tech conglomerates and their infrastructure
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Table of contents, special issue Disinformation-for-hire as Everyday Digital Labor I edited with @jonathan_c_ong for @SocialMedia_Soc journal
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Entrevista que concedi à Gaúcha ZH sobre as pesquisas que temos desenvolvido: plataformização do trabalho, fazendas de clique, Fairwork, cooperativismo de plataforma...
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Livro Trabalho por Plataformas Digitais, de autoria minha e de Julice Salvagni, sairá em breve pelas Edições SESC. Um livro introdutório ao tema. Acabou de sair a capa. Mais notícias nos próximos dias
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#AoIR 2025 in São Paulo, with the best karaokes and great organizers @adriaramaral @issaafkarhawi
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Já em pré-venda o livro Os Laboratórios do Trabalho Digital, pela editora @editoraboitempo , fruto das nossas atividades no @DigiLabour . 38 entrevistas com grandes pesquisadoras e pesquisadores + capítulo introdutório meu
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Two new articles published in the special issue I'm editing (yes, another one) for @BigDataSoc on critical data studies in Latin America. Oscar D'Alva and @parana_ "Official statistics and big data in Latin America: Data enclosures and counter-movements"
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Come work with me at UofT! Some more Faculty Vacancies (asst and assoc rankings): Policy Studies (with focus on data/technology/information...), Information and Technology Studies (critical algorithm studies, social aspects of AI...), UX Design...
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Fairwork Brazil 2023 Ratings
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4 years
Matéria que escrevi pra Jacobin Brasil. Tem entrevistas com @means_tv , @PPU512 , @jamie_woodcock , @bolittow , @fabriciobarili @JacobinBrasil
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Proud supervisor! My former master student @fabriciobarili got an acceptance of his first solo-authored article in a journal - International Journal of Communication. Now he's looking for PhD programs!
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Muito feliz por ver a minha pesquisa de mestrado ser aceita e publicada no international Journal of Communication (IJOC). Um agradecimento especial ao meu orientador e amigo @grohmann_rafael por todo o apoio, orientação e confiança.
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Hybrid event at @oiioxford with me and @jonasvalente . Critical Data Studies with Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialismo, based on the article we published in @BigDataSoc . May 8. Join us!
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Rafael Grohmann
2 years
Next Monday, DigiLabour will launch two animated videos about click farms. In two episodes, it tells the story of Joana, who lost her job and starts working for these platforms with the function of clicking and commenting on profiles of influencers, celebrities and politicians.
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4 years
Oficialmente como pesquisador do projeto Histories of AI, da Universidade de Cambridge, a partir de um grant concedido por eles
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3 years
A partir de agora, contribuo mensalmente com o blog da @editoraboitempo . Na estreia, comento os nomes que circulam em torno de trabalho e plataformas: gig economy, uberização, plataformização, trabalho digital, trabalho por plataformas e suas variações
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In Amsterdam for Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor & Social Reproduction conference. Looking forward to meeting all this amazing people!
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Talk this Wednesday 5PM UK/ 1PM BRT/ noon EST at @oiioxford with me and @jonasvalente . Critical Data Studies with Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialism, based on the article we published in @BigDataSoc . Hybrid event. Join us!
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Rafael Grohmann
3 years
FAPESP lança novo edital em parceria com CGI e Min de C&T para apoiar pesquisas estratégicas sobre internet, incluindo cultura digital, software livre, dados abertos, políticas de internet. Até 1/7 e pode ser coord. por pessoa de qualquer parte do Brasil
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Stay tuned! We will soon announce a new journal! And you will certainly be interested in it
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A global and transhistorical view of artificial intelligence: labor and Rights. Tomorrow, Columbia University
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Next week I'll be in Rio de Janeiro to give a talk on worker-owned platforms and learnings from Latin America. This is part of amazing Platform Cooperativism Conference
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Lançamento do app Meu Corre, que permite a entregadores controlarem despesas e ganhos, com dados que permitem conhecer condições de trabalho, possibilitando tomada de decisão mais qualificada sobre onde e como trabalhar. Dia 15!
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April 30, talk at University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, on decent work in the digital economy addressing Platforms and AI
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3 years
Chegou @editoraboitempo ❤️
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Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil just launched a toolkit on digital sovereignty as a notion from social movements and worker struggles. Supported by University of Toronto / DigiLabour
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Na última edição da revista Fronteiras - Estudos Midiáticos, do PPG em Comunicação da UNISINOS, traduzimos três textos que consideramos fundamentais para debates sobre cultura digital. Segue o fio:
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Chegou o livro Uberização, Trabalho Digital e Indústria 4.0, pela @editoraboitempo , com muita gente bacana, como @jamie_woodcock , @geoplace , @ricardofesti , Ludmila Abilio. Contribuo com capítulo sobre plataformização do trabalho, seus cenários e possibilidades de alternativas
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For those based in Montreal. I'll be there at McGill University Nov 20 for a talk "Workers Governing Platforms and AI". If you are around, join us!
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Com muita alegria, a partir de agora passo a fazer parte do Conselho do Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, da University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), dirigido por @safiyanoble e @ubiquity75
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Plano de Ação para o Cooperativismo de Plataforma no Brasil é entregue a Lula por Bruna Sampaio, entregadora do coletivo Señoritas Courier. O texto está disponível no site do DigiLabour
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Full programme and registration link:
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3 years
Call for papers, special issues on digital platforms: a thread 👇👇
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4 years
Os entregadores brasileiros estão se mobilizando para construir cooperativas de plataforma. E já há coletivos e cooperativas de entregadores no país
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Entrevista que eu dei para o Estadão. Conversamos sobre políticas públicas para cooperativismo de plataforma/economia digital solidaria, regulação de IA e do trabalho por plataformas
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CfP for Conference of International Network of Digital Labor @INDL_Official is out! The event will be in Santiago, late October. Deadline to submit 400-word abstract is May 31 (English, Spanish or Portuguese) This event last year in Berlin was amazing!
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Vem aí cooperativismo de plataforma como política pública? "Secretaria de Economia Solidária. Idealizado para promoção de políticas voltadas a trabalhadores de plataformas, como motoristas e entregadores, o órgão deverá ter destaque no governo do PT"
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Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world. Read our editorial here. More soon!
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Galo, organizer of delivery workers in Brazil, was punched and burned by the police. Could you help make this case visible outside Brazil, please? @techworkersco @techwontsaveus @GigWorkersRise @SidneyRothstein @restofworld @moiragweigel @tamigraph @telliotter @organizejs
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A 2 semanas atraz fui pego sem capacete e levado pra uma delegacia, fui espancado e queimado e quando eles diziam você não gosta de queimar as coisas faz o L agora. No primeiro momento pensei em denunciar na hora. +
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Come work with us at the University of Toronto: Tenure-track job position, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies
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In 2024-2025, I'll be a Faculty fellow at @bonhamcentre ! Details here
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Rafael Grohmann
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No Rio, nesta quarta, dia 29, a partir de 18h, o Calma Bar recebe lançamento do livro Trabalho por Plataformas Digitais (Edições SESC), de Rafael Grohmann e Julice Salvagni Drinks e bate papo comigo e convidades Rua Arnaldo Quintela, 51 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
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No Estadão impresso de hoje sobre a necessidade de incluir trabalhadores anotadores de dados na regulação de IA
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Jonathan Corpus Ong and I are editing a special issue in Social Media + Society on disinformation-for-hire and click farming. Please consider submit your abstract until October 15
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CfP International symposium on Platform work in Brazil, December. Deadline for sending proposals: Abril 30.
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Starting soon the Brazilian Day of Media and Communication Research in Toronto
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OUT! Animated video on click farm workers in Brazil. Learn about Maria, who lost her job and started working for these platforms. She tries to survive amidst scams, fakes and coaches.
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Núcleo de Tecnologia do MTST lançará cartilha sobre soberania tecnologica no dia 1/5, 12h no Twitch do @TecnologiaMTST … A cartilha foi viabilizada por meio de uma parceria com a Universidade de Toronto
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Escrevi um texto sobre as potencialidades do Núcleo de Tecnologia do MTST em relação a reapropriação de tecnologias, oportunidades de renda, organização de trabalhadores e luta por soberania a partir da classe trabalhadora Seguindo a semana @evgenymorozov
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Lista de revistas da área de comunicação no Brasil disponível no site da @Compos_Oficial . Esperamos que este recurso seja útil para pesquisadoras e pesquisadores da nossa área
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Let's go to #AoIR2024 in Sheffield! @alecostabarbosa and I will present Big Tech Sovereignty: Platforms and Discourse of Sovereignty-as-a-Service
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Quando pesquisa e impacto social se encontram fortemente!
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