We published an piece on The Conversation based on our article published on Globalizations journal.

Read the piece, only in Portuguese, on The Conversation.

The full article is available open-access in English as: Pereira, G., Israel, C., Firmino, R., Kramer, H., & Abad, J. (2025). Building a Digital Wall: the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil. Globalizations. …

Drawing on our newly published article, Abel Guerra and I wrote a blog post for Media@LSE. In it, we argue that scams are a core feature of the platform economy, just as much as algorithms and data, and that “platform scams” should be defined as the dishonesties and uncertainties behind platforms’ algorithmic management.

Read the blog post on Media@LSE.

The full article is available as: Grohmann, …

Algorithmic Antagonisms: Resistance, Reconfiguration, and Renaissance for Computational Life
Media International Australia
Co-edited by Luke Heemsbergen, Emiliano Treré, and Gabriel Pereira

“Fuck the Algorithm!
Fuck the Algorithm!
Fuck the Algorithm!”

The chant of hundreds of UK school students echoed across the streets in front of the UK’s Department of Education. Students, livid, …