Bio
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies whose research focuses on Critical Platform and Data Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), with a graduate cross-appointment at the Faculty of Information. He leads the DigiLabour Initiative and is a researcher with Fairwork.
Professor Grohmann is interested in platform labour and platformization of labour, especially the forms of agency, organization and resistance on the part of workers. He has a research background in Latin America, connecting old forms of informal work with “new” platform mechanisms. Professor Grohmann is currently developing research on click farm work, fair work in the platform economy and platform cooperativism in Latin America, using mixed methods and action research.
Before joining the University of Toronto, he was an Assistant Professor of Communication at Unisinos University, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of São Paulo.
Memberships
- Editorial Board Member: Big Data & Society journal
- Editorial Board Member: Work, Employment and Society journal
- Scholars Council of UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)
- Founding Board Member: Labor Tech Research Network