[Commlist] CfP Convergence Special Issue: Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices and Workers’ Organisation

*CfP Convergence Special Issue:Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, 
Practices and Workers’ Organisation*

The guest editorsJúlia Vilasís-Pamos,Fernanda Pires,Willian Fernandes 
Araújo, andRafael Grohmannare glad to invite abstracts submissions for 
the Special Issue of Convergence "Social Media and Platform Work: 
Stories, Practices and Workers’ Organisation".
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*Deadline for Abstract Submissions:*15thMarch2022*
*Deadline for Full Papers:31thAugust2022
Expected date of publication:April 2023**
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Potential contributors should submit a 500-word abstract (excluding 
references), a 100-word bio, and the
contact information of the corresponding author to the guest editors: 
Júlia Vilasís Pamos((julia.vilasis /at/ upf.edu));
Fernanda Pires ((fernanda.pires /at/ uab.cat));Willian Fernandes 
Araújo((waraujo /at/ unisc.br)); Rafael Grohmann
((rafaelgrohmann /at/ unisinos.br)). Feel free to consult the special issue 
editors about your article ideas and
potential angles or approaches.After the abstractshave beenselected, 
authors will be invited to submit a full
paper. Please note that acceptance ofanabstract does not guarantee 
publication, given that all papers will go
through the journal’s peer review process*.
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This special issue aims to deepen theunderstanding of the ways platform 
workers engage with social media.
During the last decade, social media have beeninstrumental 
withinplatform work because theyare fundamental
tothis type of labour.Platform workers’ useof social mediacan be 
consideredformsof communication,
socialisation and organisation. Through WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, 
YouTube, TikTok and other channels,
workers can share tips, stories, and practices. Therefore, it is crucial 
todevelop new understandings ofthe
different uses, discourses, practices and stories that emerge when 
platform work intersects with social media.
Furthermore, platform workers can use social media to bring to the fore 
different forms ofexploitation,
discrimination, and inequalities around platform power, and also in 
relation to consumers of the platform
services. Thus, ithasclearly becomenecessary tointerrogatethe waysin 
whichplatform work is reinforcing pre-
existing inequalities in the areas of gender, class, sexual 
orientation,andcountry of origin, among others,as well
asto understandthe rolethatsocial media play to mitigate or increase 
these inequalities.
Beyond questioning inequalities associated with platform work expressed 
in social media, it is alsoimportantto
explorethe ways social media platforms can be key spaces for workers to 
collaborate, socialize, and learn
informally about this type of labour. Workers share storieson social 
mediaabout their work routine and
everyday practices. Social media can also be a place for work 
self-promotion and the emergence of workers
acting as influencers and coaches. Hence,it is important 
toraisequestions about the centralitythatsocial media
hasforworkers’ organizations, strikes, fissures among the collective, or 
other forms of emerging solidarities.
We invite researchers to send proposals focused on different theoretical 
and empirical frameworks on the use
of social media among platform workers.We strongly encourage 
contributions from scholars of the Global
South, and from different academic fields. This may include (butisnot 
limited to) the following topics:

●Platform work and social media influencers;
●Social media uses for platform work;
●Discourses about platform work within social media communities and groups;
●Digital workers’ solidarity and organisation through social media;
●Social media and platform worker’s informal learning;
●The use ofhumorouscontent to discuss platform work on social media;
●The use of social media for discussingthe precariousness ofplatform work;
●The use of social media for denouncing inequalities in platform work 
(gender,immigration; social
class and other intersecting aspects);
●Platform workers’ reputation on social media;
●Worker’s self-representation in social media platforms;
●Social media and theborders and limits of the workspace in a 
platformisation context;
Timeline and informationforauthors

Important note: no payment from the authors will be required.


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