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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · 12d

Omg. They flowered.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · 12d

In the sept issue!

How to tell supply chain histories.

Specifically, the story of India's software industry.

A conjunctural approach to global production networks: the case of India’s software services industry

Abstract. Global production networks (GPNs) are a ubiquitous mode of industrial organization. This article advances the theorization of GPN formation. By f

academic.oup.com

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Post doc opportunity on computational infrastructures

"How do computational infrastructures expand into sectoral organizations? Are current (digital) policies adequate in responding to their impact on administration of justice?"

careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice

careers.tudelft.nl

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Aug 13

No bells and whistles, solid and sensible.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Reading 1980s lit on large technical systems and loving it.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy plants + moody Juno

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Writing from scratch. Draft zero sort of situation. Can someone remind me how it's done.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Jun 10

I am starting to sense the very real fears of job loss among software developers and data scientists. Bosses talking to team leads, telling the that the upper echelons want to co-pilot their way into smaller dev teams.

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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · Jun 2

Back in 🇩🇪 NRW this week. Presenting my work on ‘Big AI’—Platforms, Dependency, & Power, at @unibonn.bsky.social tonight (Mon), & Internationale Club La Redoute w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Tue). 🔗 www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/events/up... & intclub-redoute-bonn.de/event/big-ai.... Please come if around!

Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Dependency in the Digital Age

www.cassis.uni-bonn.de

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Jun 2

Argh, I know. Especially as I'm not sure when our paths will cross next...

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Jun 2

Ohh this looks so great!! fomo for sure...(But that seems to be a mistake in the programme...I'm not going to be there 😕)

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Jun 1

mass production of labour process studies ruined braverman.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · May 31

Found my dream collaborator and convinced him to write the book with me. So that's good.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · May 18

What's that? More pictures of Juno?

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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 8

With presenters Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan and responses by @devikanarayan.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social and Gillian Tett discussing a recent paper published last week journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Prodexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain - Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan, 2025

Using Google as a case study, this paper analyzes the online advertising sector's search industry. Arguing that search engines are not engines, it examines...

journals.sagepub.com

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · May 9

Looking forward to this!

Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 8

EVENT ALERT: Platforms and Society and
@adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Apr 21

Little J.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy to be leaving New York so I can get alicia keys out of my brain. It's a real affliction.

Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Mar 30

Just leaving Detroit after a nine day visit. I loved my stay. What a great town.

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Mar 20

Juno content

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · Mar 10

💬 Announcing our #AAG2025 EGSG Early Career Keynote lecture, 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change' to be given by Devika Narayan, with @jamiepeck.bsky.social as discussant.

Hosted by @econgeog.bsky.social
Wednesday 3.26 at 10:10 AM in Detroit!

Poster on multicolored background says early career keynote and has a photo of Devika Narayan, University of Bristol, Speaker, with the title and text: 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change: This Keynote examines the impact of a highly concentrated tech sector on firm practices across industries. I intend to answer three questions:
1) What is distinctive about computing technologies today? 2) What is the contemporary structure and organisation of corporate computing? 3) How does this configuration of computing relations alter firm practices? My claim is that digital technology and the tech sector intensifies volatility and chaos in capitalist industries through new forms of abstraction, modularity, and outsourcing. New tools and techniques of rapid experimentation speed up not just expansion and growth but also speed up the interruption of established firm practices. Overall, I contribute a theoretical framing of machinic hyper-flexibility and capitalist logics.' With the date, time, and plate listed as Wednesday 3/26
10.10AM - 11.30AM
AAG Annual Meeting
430A, Level 4
Huntington Place
Hosted by the Economic
Geography Specialty Group

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Mar 13

Oh no. No reward for the hardship 😂 let me see if i rise to the occasion.

...actually, can you pls write about DevOps so I don't have to??

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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thank you!! I'll take anything interesting

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