[Commlist] Report: Creative Labour in Rupture? GenAI & Future Research Directions

Report: Creative Labour in Rupture? GenAI & Future Research Directions

We’re happy to share a new report that grew out of our AoIR 2025 
pre-conference in Brazil: /Creative Labour in Rupture? GenAI & Future 
Research Directions./

The pre-conference brought together 50 scholars working across creative 
labour, cultural production, platforms, and AI to think collectively 
about what GenAI is changing, how we might study those transformations, 
and which questions should guide the next phase of research.

The report (linked below) opens with provocations from Arturo Arriagada, 
Robert Prey, Alessandro Gandini, Daphne Idiz, Thomas Poell, David 
Nieborg, Godwin Simon, Jiaru Tang, Caitlin Petre, Rafael Grohmann, M.E. 
Luka, and Tom Divon. It then brings together the voices of all 50 
scholars in the room through three lenses: Ruptures, Reactions, and 
Resistances.

The report is a shared baby of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures 
(CLCF), DigiLabour, and the Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN). We 
hope it can serve as a resource for any of you who wish to carry these 
conversations forward, for research, teaching, and for thinking together 
about where scholarship on GenAI and creative labour needs to go next.

And to make that continuation more practical, we have also built a 
collaborative reading list on GenAI and creative labour, drawing on the 
references and intellectual traditions brought into the room in Rio. The 
list is designed to stay open and evolve with the field, and we warmly 
invite you to add your own work, reports, or anything you’ve read and 
haven’t been able to shut up about.

Read and use the full report:
Creative Labour in Rupture? GenAI & Future Research Directions - 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1srOcSNmdy4n_vFefM4Cfgu5I3zGObPUd/view?usp=sharing 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1srOcSNmdy4n_vFefM4Cfgu5I3zGObPUd/view?usp=sharing>

Explore and contribute to the living reading list:
GenAI & Creative Labour | Reading List - 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VWE5Bp9_92bjE4dIdO5rpwJkkcBC6P8UR2wXL2FjDNw/edit?tab=t.0 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VWE5Bp9_92bjE4dIdO5rpwJkkcBC6P8UR2wXL2FjDNw/edit?tab=t.0>

Check out our sites (we provide more useful resources there!)
*CCSN* - https://www.ccsn.site/ <https://www.ccsn.site/> | *Instagram 
*https://www.instagram.com/weareccsn/ 
<https://www.instagram.com/weareccsn/> | *Newsletter* 
https://shorturl.at/vez3a <https://shorturl.at/vez3a>
*DigiLabour* - https://digilabour.com.br/ <https://digilabour.com.br/> | 
*Instagram* https://www.instagram.com/digilabour/ 
<https://www.instagram.com/digilabour/>
*CLCF* - https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/ 
<https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/>

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