Rafael Grohmann

Microsoft, Amazon e Google entraram nessa disputa ideológica para esvaziar o conceito de soberania digital.

A proposta é apenas uma jogada comercial. É assim que avaliam os pesquisadores @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, da Univ. de Toronto e alecostabarbosa.bsky.social, da Univ. das Artes de Berlim.

Soberania digital como “serviço” é a nova estratégia ideológica das big techs

Nos últimos anos, as maiores big techs lançaram novos produtos vendendo “soberania como serviço”, para governos e para o setor público.

EU targets Microsoft and Amazon Replies by 🎓Benoît Cœuré, 🎓Alberto Alemanno, 🎓Rafael Grohmann +1 more scholars

EU targets Microsoft and Amazon

The European Union moved to tighten regulation of U.S. hyperscalers Microsoft and Amazon in cloud services to curb their market dominance, officials said.

With replies by 🎓Benoît Cœuré, 🎓Alberto Alemanno, 🎓Rafael Grohmann +1 more scholars.

Sovereignty-as-a-service: How big tech companies co-opt and redefines digital sovereignty - Rafael Grohmann, Alexandre Costa Barbosa, 2025 This article introduces the concept of sovereignty-as-a-service to describe how Big Tech companies, specifically Microsoft, Amazon, and Google/Alphabet, are str...

Sovereignty as a service, sovereignty washing. The fact is that Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are selling "local clouds" to governments and businesses and calling it sovereignty lol. More in the article we published last week in Media, Culture & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come to my talk this Tuesday 7pm ET on Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms: lessons from Brazil and Argentina. Hybrid event organized by Civic Tech Toronto

Registration here: civictech.ca/hacknights/5...

“When Microsoft offers a cloud designed for “government sovereignty,” or when Google presents digital sovereignty […] these are not just corporate responses to external demands, they are strategic appropriations of a concept that historically belonged to political communities, not private firms.” 👏👏

💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa

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Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social

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With many thanks to the @platformsnsociety.bsky.social team for their valuable feedback, including Julie Chen, @andretwp.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social - thanks for giving us this place to dialogue!

We recently hosted a panel for “Ethics in Business & Society: Feminist Economies, Fair Trade, and Digital Platforms” as part of our Worlding Feminist Political Economies series with thoughtful perspectives from our amazing speakers — PK Mutch, Andria Barrett, and Dr. Rafael Grohmann! ✨

The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour. Out in December.
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Livro Tecnologia Sem Teto, de autoria do Nucleo de Tecnologia do MTST, com prefacios de Guilherme Boulos e Rafael Grohmann: www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/livro

Teaching on AI: Media Workers & AI Course - CLCF CLCF Co-Lead Rafael Grohmann is teaching a course on Media Workers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Media Studies.

Syllabus of the undergrad course I'm teaching this term on Media Workers & AI, with funding from University of Toronto’s Global Classrooms Funding Initiative, connected to the Creative Labour and Critical Futures project.

creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/teachin...

Amanha 13h canal DigiLabour faz uma conversa online com Rodrigo Ochigame sobre o seu novo livro Informatica do Oprimido

Alem da apresentacao do livro, o evento conta com comentarios de Paola Ricaurte, Leonardo Foletto e Rafael Grohmann

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-H...

IA e Cooperativismo. Amanhã online na Semana de Inovação da ENAP

I would like to thank the 100+ attendees, speakers, and the organizing team of the Workers Governing Technologies workshop, which took place last week in Toronto. It was two intense days of collective learning with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Canada, Mexico, and the US.

Celebrating One Year of CLCF! We’re taking a look back at all the incredible achievements from our members to date.

One year of our project Creative Labour and Critical Futures, on AI in the cultural industries. Check out our list of activities from this past year
creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/celebra...

Sovereignty isn’t just about building local data centres, in-shoring supply chains, or adding layers of regulation. It’s about having the agency and capability to make strategic choices public.digital/pd-insights/...

Amazing, thank you so much, @charleswlogan.bsky.social ! I only knew the amazing Data Workers' Inquiry! Spreading the word here

Obrigada, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social pela coordenação, confiança e por poder presenciar como você e sua pesquisa vão reunindo pessoas e grupos que estão dispostos a lutar por um mundo com mais amor e igualdade.

#Art #BRart #MTST #historiasemquadrinhos

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Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence | Vera List Center Oct 17–Oct 18, 2025

Dear all, I will embark on a tour of NYC, Washington, and Toronto btw October 14-27... landing first for the lecture at the Vera List Center. Drop a line if around!

www.veralistcenter.org/events/vlc-f...

HQ Outros Mundos Tecnológicos São Possíveis. Já disponível em português, espanhol e inglês @tecnologiamtst.bsky.social
www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq

Taí! O lançamento da versão impressa foi hoje! E agora, pode beixar as versões online em português, inglês e espanhol ❤️

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Other Tech Worlds Are Possible. Comic book is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese! Partnership with the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MTST), @germana-fazgibi.bsky.social

English: digilabour.com.br/comic-book-o...
Portuguese: www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq

Na Folha hoje sobre a importância dos trabalhadores da cultura para os debates sobre IA
www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20...

Film festivals like TIFF set the tone for wider industry norms — here’s what we’re watching around AI AI in the film industry is a hot-button issue that filmmakers, tech companies, distributors, creatives’ guilds and unions, policymakers and viewers are struggling to negotiate.

Film festivals like TIFF set the tone for wider industry norms. Here’s what we’re watching around AI. Our piece for The Conversation. Daphne Idiz, Lauren Knight and I
theconversation.com/film-festiva...

HQ da @germana-fazgibi.bsky.social que parece muito legal. Tem lançamento em São Paulo no domingo:

Last few seats available for the 'Workers Governing Technologies' workshop in Toronto. Register here creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/workers...

AI policy debates in Brazil: struggles over regulation, governance and labour. New article in the journal Global Political Economy

Authors: Rafael Grohmann, Edemilson Paraná, Jonas CL Valente and Roseli Figaro

Link: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...