Special Issue  of Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication

Deadline: November 11, 2019

Guest Editors: Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University, Brazil) and Jack Qiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication, an open access journal, 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? 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.

Articles must be between 5000 and 8000 words in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese and must be submitted by the journal's website: http://periodicos.uff.br/contracampo/

Please send any inquiries to rafaelgrohmann@unisinos.br or jacklqiu@cuhk.edu.hk