Four New DiPLab Publications Now Accessible

It has been a particularly productive semester for DiPLab researchers and affiliates in terms of publishing articles and book chapters. Here are the complete citations (and open access links) of our recent contributions that compare data work in various countries.

A Special issue of New Political Economy guest-edited by Uma Rani Amara and Nicolas Pons-Vignon on “Power relations in the digital economy” has been published as Volume 30, issue 3 of the journal. It includes our article on “Where does AI come from?”, a comparison of data work in Venezuela, Madagascar, and France.

Tubaro, Paola, Antonio A. Casilli, Maxime Cornet, Clément Le Ludec, and Juana Torres Cierpe. 2025. “Where Does AI Come from? A Global Case Study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America.” New Political Economy 30 (3): 359–72. doi:10.1080/13563467.2025.2462137. (preprint access here: https://inria.hal.science/hal-04933816v1)

The Journal Globalizations has published a special issue on The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America. It features our article on AI labor in Brazil and Argentina.

Tubaro, Paola, Antonio A. Casilli, Mariana Fernández Massi, Julieta Longo, Juana Torres Cierpe, and Matheus Viana Braz. 2025. “The Digital Labour of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America: A Comparison of Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela.” Globalizations, February, 1–16. doi:10.1080/14747731.2025.2465171. (preprint access here: https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04935984v1)

The Handbook of Digital Labor, edited by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Shinjoung Yeo, and Richard Maxwell, has been released by Wiley Blackwell. This comprehensive work brings together leading voices on the transformations of labor in the digital age. Among its contributions, our chapter on global inequalities and AI, comparing Venezuela, France, Madagascar, and Brazil.

Casilli, Antonio A., Paola Tubaro, Maxime Cornet, Clément Le Ludec, Juana Torres-Cierpe, et al. 2025. Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Country Study on Data Work. In: Jack Linchuan Qiu, Shinjoung Yeo, Richard Maxwell (eds.). The Handbook of Digital Labor, Wiley Blackwell, pp.219-232, 2025, ISBN10: 9781119981800. (preprint access here: https://hal.science/hal-04742532v2)

The journal New Technology, Work and Employment has made available, as an online first, the new article by Juana Torres-Cierpe and Paola Tubaro about Venezuelan data workers.

Torres-Cierpe, Juana and Paola Tubaro. 2025. Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers. New Technology, Work and Employment. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12340 (preprint access here: https://hal.science/hal-05041068v1)