[Air-L] [Recap] DigiLabour Book Talks in 2025

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Hi AoIR,

In 2025, DigiLabour continued to organize online book talks on its YouTube channel, alongside some in-person events in Toronto. As a recap, check out the 2025 online talks, all available on the channel.

Predatory Data - Anita Chan (with Esteban Morales and Paola Ricaurte as discussants): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbyelDrhIZY

Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Tanner Mirrlees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVLFCNNRwY

Influencer Creep - Sophie Bishop (with Jul Parke and Arturo Arriagada as discussants): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7GwNQ3WqE

Common Circuits - Luis Felipe Murillo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EPNV9QN0w

Informatics of the Oppressed - Rodrigo Ochigame (with Paola Ricaurte as discussant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-HJOmwUAQ

--
All DigiLabour Book Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbyelDrhIZY

Short Videos, Workers Governing Technologies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1PImwoWGA&list=PLBkJLI8oXeXd6YyAY44qZ1mGVFhM9YZDY

--
And more book talks are coming in 2026. Stay tuned!

best,

Rafael



--

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/>

Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work>

Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>  <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>