Gabriel Pereira

CfP Software Libraries: Following the Infrastructures of Code

20 Jul 2026

CfP for a Special Issue of Computational Culture on software libraries as sociotechnical objects and infrastructures: their political economy, platformization, epistemic and normative systems, as well as critical reappropriations. Guest edited by Gabriel Pereira and Abel Guerra. Read more >

Curitiba's Digital Wall is a symbol of how smart cities have become surveilled cities

11 Aug 2025

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. …

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Are scams a core feature of the platform economy?

7 Aug 2022

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, …

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