Dear colleagues, *Convergence* journal just published the special issue *Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation*, edited by Júlia Vilasís-Pamos, me, Rafael Grohmann and Willian Fernandes Araujo. This special issue aims to deepen the understanding of how platform workers engage with social media. During the last decade, social media have been instrumental within platform work because they are fundamental to this type of labour. Platform workers’ use of social media can be considered forms of communication, socialisation and organisation. Through WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and other channels, workers can share tips, stories, and practices. Therefore, it is crucial to develop new understandings of the different uses, discourses, practices and stories that emerge when platform work intersects with social media. In the introductory article, we highlighted the roles of social media for platform labour, especially social media affordances in platform work cultures, social media as labour, and socialisation, solidarity and narratives. */TABLE OF CONTENTS/* /Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation/ Júlia Vilasís-Pamos, Fernanda Pires, Rafael Grohmann and Willian Fernandes Araujo https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565241227391 /Cooperative solidarity among crowdworkers? Social learning practices on a crowdtesting social media platform/ Annika Becker, Leonard Ecker, Inga Külpmann, Karen Schwien, and Patrick Stobbe https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231183298 /Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes/ Ergin Bulut and Adem Yeşilyurt https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231188415 /The porous boundaries of public and private messages: Solidarity networks of Latin American food delivery workers in NYC/ Ambar Reyes https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231210984 /What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups/ Fernanda Pires, Tugce Ataci and Willian Fernandes Araujo https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231160622 /Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism/ Sandra Martorell and Antoni Roig Telo https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231181981 /Exposing the mess in the online kitchen: Bon Appetit and digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations/ Emmelle Israel https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231193121 /Cooperative affordances: How instant messaging apps afford learning, resistance and solidarity among food delivery workers/ Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Treré, Zizheng Yu, Swati Singh, Daniele Cargnelutti and Francisco Javier López-Ferrández https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231153505 /The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry/ Arturo Arriagada and Ignacio Siles https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231157364 /Delivery riders’ cultural production in Spain: A thematic analysis of their self-representation on YouTube/ Fernanda Pires, Jose Tomasena and Martina Piña https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231161252 /Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok/ Gabriela Elisa Sued and Arturo Rodriguez Rodriguez https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231179963 /Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators/ Fabian Hoose and Sophie Rosenbohm https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231185863 /Influencers’ Instagram imaginaries as a global phenomenon: Negotiating precarious interdependencies on followers, the platform environment, and commercial expectations/ Vanessa Richter and Zhen Ye https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231178918 /‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages/ Yang Huang and WeiMing Ye https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231211117