Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication, an open access journal
from Universidade Federal Fluminense, invites submissions to our special issue
“Platform Labor”.
We ask: what are the contributions of communication research
to understand platform/digital labor or platformization of labor?
Guest Editors: Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University, Brazil) and Jack
Qiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The special issue encourages submissions of articles that explore one or
more of the following issues:
- How platformization affects work;
- Working conditions on digital platforms;
- Communication as labor/work in platform capitalism;
- Social class and collective formation among platform workers;
- Gender and race inequalities in platform labor;
- International division of digital labor and global gig economy;
- Platform labor in the Global South;
- Surveillance and privacy of workers in platform capitalism;
- Value theory and social classes in platform capitalism;
- Human work and artificial intelligence;
- Data labor and algorithmic labor;
- Algorithmic management in platform labor;
- Microwork and free labor on digital platforms;
- Silicon Valley ideology and digital labor;
- Media representations and circulation of meanings on platform labor;
- Mediatization and datafication of labor;
- Political economy of communication and platform labor;
- Alternatives to the digital labor scenario;
- Collective organization of platform workers;
- Platform Cooperativism and worker-owned platforms;
- Regulation and ethical guidelines of platform labor;
- Digital labor and environmental sustainability.
Deadline: November 11th, 2019.
Articles must be between 5000 and 8000 words in English, French, Spanish
or Portuguese and must be submitted by the journal's website.
Please send any inquiries to rafael-ng@uol.com.br or
jacklqiu@cuhk.edu.hk
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