Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. He is research associate at the University of Oxford, founding editor of Platforms & Society journal and leader of DigiLabour initiative. His research focuses on digital labour, AI and work, AI in the cultural sector, workers’ organizing, platform cooperativism and digital solidarity economy, especially in Latin America. He is currently working on a book manuscript on how worker collectives are failing and learning to govern platforms. Grohmann is a co-lead of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, a Senior Fellow at Massey College and an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Culture and Technology. He is also researcher of the AI Policy Observatory of the World of Work. His previous affiliations include Weizenbaum Institute (Germany) and University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Grohmann published in academic outlets such as Big Data & Society, New Media & Society, International Journal of Communication, Communications of the ACM, Information, Communication & Society, and Social Media + Society. He is an editorial board member of Communication, Culture and Critique and Big Data & Society.

Affiliations:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, UTSC
• Cross-appointment, Faculty of Information, UofT
• Senior Fellow, Massey College
• Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
• Advisory Board, Centre for Culture and Technology
• Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford