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(Re)working for Sustainable Futures: Climate Change and Platform Economies
University of Toronto, Canada
Deadline : 06 July 2025
About the Workshop
From labour precarity to infrastructural breakdown, climate change reconfigures not only our lived environment but also the pillars of our digital economies. While fields like HCI, CSCW, platform studies, and human geography increasingly examine climate-platform intersections—from worker precarity to infrastructure vulnerabilities—disciplinary silos persist.
At this ACM COMPASS 2025 hybrid workshop
we are facilitating a cross-disciplinary exchange to:
Fostering constructive dialogue by bridging together frontier concepts, approaches, and methods from diverse disciplinary communities.
Reimagining (and, where possible, reworking) research agendas that support socio-ecological sustainability within platform economies.
Facilitating community building, collaborative knowledge production, and the development of shared resources for ongoing research, design practices, and policy advocacy
We are taking on three critical themes :
Labour
Labour
How can labour concerns be meaningfully integrated into mainstream climate discourse on platform economies?
How does climate change exacerbate vulnerabilities for platform workers, particularly in the Global South?
What policy interventions, platform designs, and worker-led initiatives can mitigate climate-induced precarity in platform economies?
Data
Data
How do platforms collect, govern, and utilize climate data, and what are the implications of corporate climate datafication?
How can workers and unions leverage climate data for data-driven advocacy?
What is the role of platforms in the production, circulation, and consumption of climate knowledge?
To what extent can alternative data practices with and beyond digital platforms foster a “degrowth” future?
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
How does platform infrastructure contribute to the climate crisis?
How is climate leveraged as infrastructure by platform companies?
How do we imagine and design alternative infrastructures that are scalable, evidence-based, equitable, and worker-centric?
Researchers, activists, policymakers, and practitioners—
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Deadline : 01 July 2025
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