The thrilling works that our members published individually and with co-authors this year echoes how 2025 was a crucial and generative year for Creative Labour and Critical Futures. We’re delighted to post this non-exhaustive selection of 2025 publications stemming from the CLCF team of thinkers asking critical questions through translocal, collective, inter- and cross-disciplinary frameworks.

Campbell, M. V., & Forman, M. (Eds.). (2025). Hip-hop archives : the politics and poetics of knowledge production. Intellect.

Chávez Guerra, Lidoly. “Perceptual Imagining and Political Agency in Immersive Films” (Submitted to The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, in process of edition for resubmission 2025).

Chávez Guerra, Lidoly. “Action, Power, and Discourse: Media and Indigenous Agency in Post-Revolution Mexican Performance” (In preparation 2025).

Steinhoff, J., Posada, J., & Delfanti, A. (2025). Remote robotics, or the digital re-embodiment of labour. Work, Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 19(2), 278–290. https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0010

The Capacitor Collective. (2025). Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry. Common Notions.

Grohmann, R., & Costa Barbosa, A. (2025). Sovereignty-as-a-service: How big tech companies co-opt and redefine digital sovereignty. Media, Culture & Society. 

Grohmann, R., Rocha, A. C., & Guilherme, G. Worker-led AI governance: Hollywood writers’ strikes and the worker power. Information, Communication & Society. 

Grohmann, R. Latin American Critical Data Studies. Big Data & Society. 

Grohmann, R. Labor-atories of Digital Economies: Latin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(1).

Natale, S., Biggio, F., Arora, P., Downey, J., Fassone, R., Grohmann, R., Guzman, A., Keightley, E., Ji, D., Obia, V., Przegalińska, A., Raman, U., Ricaurte, P., & Villanueva-Mansilla, E. (2025). Global AI cultures. Communications of the ACM. 

Grohmann, R., Paraná, E., Valente, J. C., & Figaro, R. AI Policy Debates in Brazil: Struggles Over Regulation, Governance and Labour. Global Political Economy.

Rocha, A. C., Woodcock, J., & Grohmann, R. (2025). Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts. Globalizations, 1–18. 

Nichols, B. & Grohmann, R. Fighting Disinformation in a Structural Way: a case study of the Desinformante as an organizational model. Brazilian Journalism Research, 21 (1).

Jarrett, K., Grohmann, R., Chen, J. & Bulut, E. (Eds). The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour. SAGE.

Grohmann, R. (2025). Free Labor and Data Labor in the Digital Economy. : In: Venturini, T., Acker, A., Plantin, J-C & Walford, T. (Eds). The SAGE Handbook of Data and Society. SAGE, pp. 109-118.

Grohmann, R., Benedito, F., Boava, A., Costa Barbosa, A., Os, A., Martínez, A. M., Muñoz, Cancela, C., Ficher, E., Freire, G., Sousa, J., Alves, J. R., Arcuri, L., Cuello, L., Adami Pereira, M., Petrica, N., & Morimoto Minamizawa, P. (2025). Worker-owned intersectional platforms: Shared learnings between Brazil and Argentina [Report]. DigiLabour. https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WOIP-report-EN.pdf 

Sierpinski, N., Viana, G., Grohmann, R. & Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers Movement in Brazil. (2025). Comic Book, Other Tech Worlds Are Possible: vol. 1., Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. DigiLabour. https://digilabour.com.br/comic-book-other-tech-worlds-are-possible-with-homeless-workers-movement-in-brazil/

Idiz, D & Rasmussen, N. (2025, 8 11). Streaming Production Cultures: A Research Roadmap. Media Industries 12(1) doi: 10.3998/mij.7624

Luka, Mary Elizabeth, Rafael Grohmann, and Daphne Rena Idiz. (2025). Creative Labour Critical Futures: A Way to Think Through AI Challenges. CLCF Response to UN call for input on creativity and AI. https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CLCF_Submission_AI_and_Creativity.pdf 

Idiz, Daphne Rena and Luka, Mary Elizabeth. (2025, July 2). How Do We Define Canadian Content: Debates Will Shape How Creatives Make a Living. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-do-we-define-canadian-content-debates-will-shape-how-creatives-make-a-living-258013

Idiz, Daphne Rena, and Thomas Poell. (2025). “Dependence in the Online Screen Industry.” Media, Culture & Society 47, no. 2 : 375–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241286725

Idiz, Daphne R, Julia Noordegraaf, and Rens Vliegenthart. “Culture as Window Dressing? A Threefold Methodological Framework for Researching the Locality of Netflix Series.” Critical Studies in Television 20, no. 1 (2025): 93–117. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020241235579.

Idiz, Daphne Rena, and Nina Vindum Rasmussen. (2025). “Streaming Production Cultures: A Research Roadmap.” Media Industries (Austin, Tex.) 12, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.3998/mij.7624

Idiz, D. R. (2025). Streaming giants and European screen production: Cultural diversity, creativity, and dependence. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam].

Intson, C. (2025). Gay dreams and feeling machines: Queering mediating technologies in performance (Order No. 32039872). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ University of Toronto; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (3276208353). Retrieved from http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fdissertations-theses%2Fgay-dreams-feeling-machines-queering-mediating%2Fdocview%2F3276208353%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D14771

Caroline Klimek. (2025). Ugly Crying in Virtual Reality: Unpacking Emotional Immersion in Jordan Tannahill’s Draw Me Close Canadian Theatre Review 202:, 29-34

Knight, L., Idiz, D. R., & Grohmann, R. (2025, September 9). Film festivals like TIFF set the tone for wider industry norms—Here’s what we’re watching around AI. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAM.dhs3rsqvw

Aline Zara and Lauren Knight. (2025). beepzine.com. https://www.alinerossizara.com/beep-zine

Luka, Mary Elizabeth, Claire Daitch, Liz Forsberg, Daniela Navia, Shawn Newman, Robin Sokoloski, Gabriel Zamfir-Enache. (2025). Direction and Desire: Culture Sector Research for the Next Decade. Culture and Local Governance Special Issue 8:2, 63-83. Lead author. Journal article. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18192/clg-cgl.v8i2.7375

Luka, Mary Elizabeth, Robin Nelson, Shawn Newman, and Robin Sokoloski. (2025). “Intro to Special Issue: Return to Impact: A Process of Imagining.” Culture and Local Governance 8 (2): i–iv. https://doi.org/10.18192/clg-cgl.v8i2.7370 

Luka, Mary Elizabeth. (2025). *La mobilization de publics de niche: Création d’une base de données dans le secteur culturel. In Millerand, Florence, Alexandre Coutant, Guillaume Latzko-Toth and Mélanie Millette, Editors. Les publics de données: Penser la datification de la société, pp. 111-122. Montreal: Les presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Knowledge Media Design Institute Podcast: Dirty Methods Series. (2025). 6 episodes. Hosted by Mary Elizabeth Luka. Featuring Mark V. Campbell (University of Toronto), Alison Harvey (York University) Mél Hogan (Queen’s University), Nataleah Hunter-Young (Western University), Mélanie Millette (Université du Québec à Montréal), Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary), Consuelo Vasquez (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Luka, Mary Elizabeth, Rafael Grohmann, and Daphne Rena Idiz. (2025). Creative Labour Critical Futures: A Way to Think Through AI Challenges. CLCF Response to UN call for input on creativity and AI. https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-contributions-artificial-intelligence-and-creativity 3000 words. First Author. https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CLCF_Submission_AI_and_Creativity.pdf

Nieborg, D. B. (2025). Hablemos de dinero, datos y producción cultural dependiente de plataformas. RAE-IC: Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, 12(24), 1–21.

Nieborg, D. B., & Poell, T. (2025). Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem. New Media & Society, 27(4), 1909–1927. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251314405

Mahetaji, K., & Nieborg, D. B. (2025). TikTok’s tools: The politics of platform tools for cultural production. Continuum, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2525519

Young, C. J., Joseph, D. J., & Nieborg, D. B. (2025). Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy. Platforms & Society, 2, 29768624251376562. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251376562

Book chapters & encyclopedias

Nieborg, D. B., Poell, T., & Dijck, J. van. (2025). Platformization. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp. 195–198). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Muldoon, J., & Parke, J. J. (2025). Cruel companionship: How AI companions exploit loneliness and commodify intimacy. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251395192

“Love+Machines: A Podcast that Explores AI Affects.” Podcast. Season 1. 

(In Peer Review, Forthcoming) Sicondolfo, Claudia. “‘How do we come back home?’ The Joyful Archives of the Home Made Visible Project.” In Counter-Archives: Communities. Stacy Allison-Cassin and Antoine Demiens, eds. Concordia University Press, 2025.

Maddalena, Kate; Zara, Aline; and Guadagnolo, Dan (2025) “Prompting for Refusal: Teaching Against and Without AI,” Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 6: Iss. 3, Article 6.

Aline Zara and Lauren Knight. (2025). beepzine.com. https://www.alinerossizara.com/beep-zine