Not just platform, nor cooperatives: worker-owned technologies from below

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcad036

Rafael Grohmann

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Abstract

Abstract This article theorizes about how platform cooperativism is landing in Brazil, challenging dominant notions and presenting a more diverse meaning of worker-owned technologies from below. Drawing on research with platform co-ops under construction in Brazil, the article argues that, in Brazil, platform cooperativism does not necessarily present itself as either a cooperative or a platform. They are prototypes and experiments of worker-owned technologies anchored in local communities and their values. Instead of all these experiences being condensed and captured from Global North epistemic frameworks, there is the production of knowledge by the workers in search of autonomy. The article analyzes potentialities and critiques of platform cooperativism, especially from three dimensions of critique (economics, politics, and technology). It presents perspectives towards diversifying and expanding the meanings of technology in/from Latin America for understanding worker-owned technologies. It discusses two examples of worker-owned technologies: Senoritas Courier and the Homeless Worker Movement.

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不仅是平台，也不是合作社:工人拥有的技术来自底层

本文从理论上分析了平台合作主义如何在巴西落地，挑战了主流观念，并从底层呈现了工人拥有技术的更多样化含义。通过对巴西正在建设的平台合作社的研究，文章认为，在巴西，平台合作主义并不一定以合作社或平台的形式出现。它们是扎根于当地社区及其价值观的工人拥有的技术的原型和实验。而不是所有这些经验被浓缩和捕获从全球北方的认识框架，有知识的生产工人在寻找自治。本文分析了平台合作主义的潜力和批评，特别是从三个维度(经济、政治和技术)的批评。它提出了多样化和扩展拉丁美洲技术含义的观点，以理解工人拥有的技术。它讨论了工人拥有的技术的两个例子:信使小姐和无家可归的工人运动。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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