My department is hiring! Assistant professor of history in Global (Modern) Latin America - a 2:2, and overall a great job. My colleagues are welcoming, generous, and supportive. Open until Oct 18. Appreciate help in spreading the word utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/169755

Applying for a #SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship? Make sure your referees submit their letters of appraisal so you can meet the deadline: September 12, 8 p.m. (EST). Check for a “Referee form completed” status. sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financ…

Políticas públicas de Economia Solidária Digital são defendidas pelo Governo Federal rosalux.org.br/politicas-publ…

Our steering committee member Nina Santos told El País English Edition a thing or two about Big Tech's massive failures in non-English speaking countries: ‘Second class: That’s how tech platforms treat citizens of the Global South’ english.elpais.com/international/…

Applications to the second writing workshop of the "How to write about platformization from Africa" series is now open. With M. Amir and Liza Rose Cirolia the workshop will be hosted at the African Centre for Cities in Feb 2025. Info here africancentreforcities.net/writing-about-…

📢📢📢PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend Moa Eriksson Krutrök on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦💛; pls join me in unpacking🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Researchers, how does @Mturk being down affect your work? Let @Amazon know zero communication is not good business practice. #academictwitter #mturk

🎉 My commentary on the political economy of platforms is out in the newly minted Platforms & Society (Platforms & Society)! doi.org/10.1177/297686… The upshot:

My thanks to the editors for the invitation write to this piece: Niels van Doorn Julie Yujie Chen Cheryll Soriano Rafael Grohmann andrea pollio Send your work to Platforms & Society!!

This is the very FIRST original research article that we have the pleasure of publishing in our new journal, Platforms & Society! Very happy and proud to see this online and thanks to Kostas Floros for writing such a thoughtful and incisive article and sending it our way. 🙏😘

Send your article to Platforms & Society Platforms & Society journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

⏳ Final Call: Mini-conference themes due Sep 16! #SASE2025 theme: "Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times." Topics: race, ethnicity, migration, economic history, & heterodox economics. 🔗 Submit Here: sase.org/event/2025-mon… #CallForPapers

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

Join us for 'The Platform Fix: Actually Existing Platformization in Post-Welfare Cities' with Niels van Doorn. Hosted by prof Rafael Grohmann. Part of the Platforms & Labour speaker series. September 10th at 4pm in Bissell 404 Get details and register: forms.office.com/r/1d4Djk9HqQ

We're hiring Sanford School of Public Policy and I'm on the search committee! We're looking for an Associate/Full Professor of Technology Policy. Applications are due November 1. Please share widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28301

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with us in our Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project at the University of Toronto. Deadline for application: Sep 20 Details here: utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/sites/utsc…

Worker Data Collectives as a means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities. Our workshop for CSCW arxiv.org/abs/2409.00737

Sep 17 we'll start an online event series on Digital Labor and Intersectionality. The first one will be on Queer and Trans Worker-Owned Technologies. Join us! digilabour-br.zoom.us/webinar/regist…