Last days to apply! Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) position, Media Studies, University of Toronto jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Rafael Grohmann
@grohmannrafael.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
O que os dados têm a ver com as bets no futebol? E a força de trabalho por trás dos dados no futebol? Texto no Outras Palavras outraspalavras.net/tecnologiaem...
Futebol: os trabalhadores precarizados das bets | Outras Palavras
Um exército invisível de anotadores de dados começa à beira do campo e chega às Filipinas ou Madagascar. Pressão por metas esgota trabalhadores, que competem com IA. Analistas assistem até a 200 jogos...
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Check out talk i did with the Digi-labour group, introducing my book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY. Thanks for having me on for this great discussion @grohmannrafael.bsky.social
Rafael Grohmann@grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 2w agoToday DigiLabour book talk with JS Tan on Against Tech Oligarchy. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGNC...
Today DigiLabour book talk with JS Tan on Against Tech Oligarchy. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGNC...
Against Tech Oligarchy, Book Talk with JS Tan
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Job position at the University of Toronto. Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream), Media Studies jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
☀️ U T O P I A N ☀️ M E D I A ☀️ S T U D I E S ☀️ I am so proud of this work w/ Convergence. Kemper & I make the argument that many media scholars use utopian approaches in their research. But we just need to reflect on how to do it together, and do it well. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
New grant! Worker-led AI governance: Power Resources and Shared Learnings of Cultural Workers in Canada and Brazil. This is a SSHRC Insight grant, the flagship program for Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries. New article in Media, Culture & Society with an overview of the results of our tracker on worker mobilizations around AI in the sector. doi.org/10.1177/0163...
LaborTech's own @grohmannrafael.bsky.social recently lauched "Tech Workers in Football (2026-2030)," a research project about the workers behind the data and artificial intelligence in the game. creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/projects/tec...
Tech Workers in Football
The workers behind data and AI in football: who they are, what they do, who they are, what they do, where they work, and how they understand their own work and the future of data and AI in football.
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Today 2pm EDT, I'll be hosting an online book talk on Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers, by Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, University of California Press. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbVS...
Boom to Bust, Book talk with Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller
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May Day reading. A comic on Argentine tech co-ops and the power of worker-led collaboration to build fairer technologies. Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Vol. 2: digilabour.com.br/comic-book-o...
Comic Book Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Vol. 2, with Argentine Federation of Tech Co-ops - DigiLabour
DigiLabour and the Argentine Federation of Tech Co-ops (FACTTIC) launch Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Volume 2, the second issue in a comic series that highlights experiences of worker collectivitie...
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Feed: "Computer Says Maybe" By: Alix Dunn on Friday, February 13, 2026
Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Karen Hao, Joan Kinyua, Chenai Chair, and Rafael Grohman
The AI Impact Summit in India is just a couple of days away and we are ready to drown in vague terms that kinda describe AI, and definitely obscure power. Let’s talk about how to reframe those terms…More like this: The Vaporstate: All Hail Scale at the AI India SummitWe’ve partnered with the AI...
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Fußball. Tracking, Datenanalyse und KI - über Wertschöpfungsketten im modernen Fußball #FifaWM2026
Fußball: Tracking, Datenanalyse und KI
Hinter den Kulissen des kommerziellen Fußballs prägen zunehmend Tracking und der Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz das Spiel – auch bei der diesjährigen Fußball-WM. Die Grundlage dafür liefern Datenarbeiter:innen, deren Beitrag zu den digitalen Wertschöpfungsketten verborgen bleibt. Ich veröffentliche den netzpolitk.org-Beitrag von Rafael Grohmann heute, weil man ja nicht weiß, wielange jedenfalls die deutsche Nationalmannschaft noch an der WM teilnimmt... „Die Fußball-WM 2026 der Männer … gilt als das Turnier der Sportgeschichte, das bislang…
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Every pass and foul in the World cup is logged and labeled by data workers in India, the Philippines and Cairo to the train AI algorithms used by betting companies and team data analysts. restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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“The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” says @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. “The football we watch runs on [data] work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
restofworld.org
📣 Announcing the new research project on tech workers in football, as some of you already know! creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/projects/tec...
Contrate Quem Luta: economias solidarias digitais e luta de classes no Brasil a partir do MTST. Novo artigo na revista Capital & Class journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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✊ New article! Hire Those Who Struggle: Digital solidarity economies and class struggles in Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement. In Capital & Class journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” @grohmannrafael.bsky.social said. “The football we watch runs on their work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
restofworld.org
💥 New piece in Big Data & Society. Towards a new paradigm of “datafied development”: Epistemic, infrastructural, economic, and geopolitical domains. By Mohammad Amir Anwar, Nanna Thylstrup, Julian Posada and I journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
ZeMKI Reminder 📣 TOMORROW the ComAI-Lecture with Prof. Dr. Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto, Canada) on the topic “Worker-Ied AI governance in cultural industries” will take place at Bremer Presse Club! More information:
Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto, Canada): Worker-led AI governance in cultural industries
Abstract This presentation examines worker-led AI governance, understood as the collective ability of workers, through unions, cooperatives, grassroots collect
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💥 New article! Building Worker-Owned Technologies in Latin America: Shared Learning, Intersectionality, and Collective Futures. A collective article with 6 worker collectives from Brazil and Argentina. In the Journal of Labor and Society. brill.com/view/journal...
ZeMKI Reminder 📣 On Tuesday, the ComAI-Lecture with Prof. Dr. Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto, Canada) on the topic “Worker-Ied AI governance in cultural industries” will take place at Bremer Presse Club! More information:
Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto, Canada): Worker-led AI governance in cultural industries
Abstract This presentation examines worker-led AI governance, understood as the collective ability of workers, through unions, cooperatives, grassroots collect
zemki.uni-bremen.de
"Forschende, Journalist:innen und auch die Fans sollten diese Arbeitskräfte ernstnehmen und ihren Beitrag zum Sport verstehen: wer diese Menschen sind, wo sie arbeiten, wie viel sie verdienen und welche Mitsprache sie bei den Technologien haben, von denen sie abhängen." @grohmannrafael.bsky.social
netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · 4mo agoHinter den Kulissen des kommerziellen Fußballs prägen zunehmend Tracking und der Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz das Spiel – auch bei der diesjährigen Fußball-WM. Die Grundlage dafür liefern Datenarbeiter:innen, deren Beitrag zu den digitalen Wertschöpfungsketten verborgen bleibt.
Rafael Grohmann: De onzichtbare werkers achter de enorme hoeveelheid data in het voetbal www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
De onzichtbare werkers achter de enorme hoeveelheid data in het voetbal - Joop - BNNVARA
Bij de aftrap van het WK 2026 leunt de kunstmatige intelligentie die het spel steeds sterker bepaalt op werkers die verborgen blijven achter de datawaardeketens..
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Lors de la Coupe du Monde 2026, l'IA sera omniprésente. Ce secteur repose sur la force de travail de petites mains, chargées de la collecte des données, délocalisées en Europe de l'est, en Afrique ou en Asie. ✒️ @grohmannrafael.bsky.social dialectik-football.info/la-main-doeu...
La main-d’œuvre derrière les données dans le football
Au coup d’envoi de la Coupe du monde 2026, l’intelligence artificielle qui pèse toujours plus sur le jeu repose sur une force de travail dissimulée derrière les chaînes de valeur des données. Rafael G...
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Dubbed over: the struggles of Brazilian voice actors towards a worker-led AI governance. New article in AI & Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Dubbed over: the struggles of Brazilian voice actors towards a worker-led AI governance - AI & SOCIETY
This article examines the struggles of Brazilian voice actors in response to the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in the screen industries, and what these struggles reveal about...
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Popular digital sovereignty and digital real utopias: Lessons from the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. New article open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New article! Popular Digital Sovereignty and Digital Real Utopias: Lessons from the Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil W/ @alecostabarbosa.bsky.social in Convergence journal. Special issue, utopian media studies edited by @textaural.bsky.social & Jakko Kemper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
