[Air-L] Comic Book, Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, with Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Hi AoIR,

We are happy to announce the launch of the first comic book of the project Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, in partnership with the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MTST). It is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
English: https://digilabour.com.br/comic-book-other-tech-worlds-are-possible-with-homeless-workers-movement-in-brazil/
Spanish: https://digilabour.com.br/lanzamiento-de-la-historieta-otros-mundos-tecnologicos-son-posibles-con-mtst/
Portuguese: https://digilabour.com.br/pt/lancamento-da-hq-outros-mundos-tecnologicos-sao-possiveis-com-mtst/
https://www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq <https://www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq>

Description of the Comic
Follow Carolina’s journey, a resident of a housing occupation in Brazil, and discover how technology transforms her life. In this first volume of the series Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, you will learn about the work of the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement, which develops technologies grounded in local communities, in critical, creative, and empowering ways.

About the Project
Other Tech Worlds Are Possible uses artistic comic-book storytelling to share the experiences of worker collectives across Latin America who broaden the meaning of technology while fighting for social justice. These stories highlight the power of political, social, technological, and artistic imagination to create alternative narratives about technology that go beyond Silicon Valley’s ideology. The project is funded by the University of Toronto through the UTSC Departmental Research Fund (Department of Arts, Culture and Media) and by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, as part of the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/report-launch-worker-owned-platforms-and-intersectionality-in-brazil-and-argentina/> <https://digilabour.com.br/report-launch-worker-owned-platforms-and-intersectionality-in-brazil-and-argentina/> project. The second volume will highlight the work of the Argentine Federation of Technology Cooperatives (FACTTIC) and will be published at the end of the year. The project features a script by Natália Sierpinski, illustrations by Germana Viana, and is produced under the direction of Rafael Grohmann.

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/>

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/>