[Air-L] SI: Critical Data Studies in Latin America (Big Data & Society)

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Hi AoIR!

Finally, Big Data & Society journal published our entire special issue on Critical Data Studies in Latin America, edited by me, and I would like to invite you to read it. Many thanks to all authors, reviewers and BD&S editors for their hard work.

This special issue focuses on Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry in critical data studies, emphasizing the region's potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence (AI). While numerous scholars have examined data-related issues in Latin America, there remains significant room for expanding our understanding of the intersections between capitalism, colonialism/coloniality, intersectionality, and other critical approaches in/from/with the region. Rather than treating Latin America as merely a site for the ‘local application’ of theories developed in the Global North, this special issue foregrounds the theoretical, epistemological, and methodological contributions that Latin American scholarship can offer to global debates. Through an interdisciplinary lens, we explore both the region's specificities and its commonalities with broader critical data studies discussions. What alternative frameworks and perspectives emerge when examining critical data studies from Latin America? How can bridges be built between Latin American scholarship and other critical traditions worldwide?

Table of Contents

Latin American Critical Data Studies
Rafael Grohmann
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251330160

Algorithmic Governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Governance’
Paola Ricaurte, Edgar Gómez-Cruz & Ignacio Siles
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241229697

Official statistics and big data in Latin America: Data enclosures and counter-movements
Oscar Arruda D’Alva & Edemilson Paraná
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241229696

Deeply Embedded Wages: Navigating Digital Payments in Data Work
Julian Posada
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241242446

Platform sub-imperialism
Kenzo Soares Seto
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241249410

Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach
Andrea Medrado & Pieter Verdegem
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241235869

Data artivism and feminicide
Helena Suárez Val, Catherine D'Ignazio, Jimena Acosta Romero, Melissa Q Teng & Silvana Fumega
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231215356

An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option
Sebastián Lehuedé
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231221778

Against decolonial reductionism: The impact of Latin American thinking on the data decolonization project
Stefania Milan & Emiliano Treré
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241270694

Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism
Jonas Valente & Rafael Grohmann
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241227875

best,

Rafael




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dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>

Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/>

University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/>
Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/>

Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>

Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/>

Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/>


2024-2025 Faculty Fellow,  Queer and Trans Research Lab, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto<https://sds.utoronto.ca/qtrl-cohort-2024-25/>