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Platforms & Society
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Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
Last but not least, Ellie Rennie's piece considers the role of "contribution systems" in creating “interobjective value” through ledgers of data dependencies journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
Sixth, @puellaludens.bsky.social uses the case of health data regulations in the United States to explore the importance of interoperability as a value leverage mechanism journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
In the fifth commentary, @kelsiemvn.bsky.social takes us to data intermediaries, the entities that process data to make it relationally valuable journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
The fourth essay, by Angela Xiao Wu, challenges commonplace narratives of unfettered platform expansion by focussing on the Chinese state as a value shareholder of platform configurations journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
Third, @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social takes us to the frontier of value promised by foundation models which allow the monetization of massive datasets through consumer facing artificial intelligence (AI) products journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
In the second essay, @franziscool.bsky.social brings the question of value to the interface between digital platforms and green VC funds journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
In the first commentary, @markandrejevic.bsky.social , Zoe Elena Horn and @Michael Richardson explore how digital twins monetize existing but disaggregated systems by assembling them into new arrangements that intensify digital enclosures journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
In their editorial, Janet Roitman, Andrew Moon and Leila Lin foreground the importance of asking questions about value to understand the heterogeneous terrain of the platform economy journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16d
A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 22d
Another recent one! Amir Anwar explores how platform workers in Africa are building self-organized networks to exert power and rework the system for their benefit, demonstrating resilience and agency outside of traditional unions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 22d
Hot off the press: Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph and @nieborg.bsky.social trace a platform historiography of #Unity to discuss how workflows create dexterous corporate lockins in cultural production journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... enjoy!
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Annette Masterson @ammasters.bsky.social · Sep 4
Great paper on the importance of political consumerism from @awirz.bsky.social!
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 20
Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 26d
And another piece for our readers: Margherita Di Cicco & Davide Beraldo explore how sex workers engage in cross-platform promotion more than in the production of sexual content itself, arguing that precarious success on OF depends on cross-platform dependency journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 26d
And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 26d
A belated catch-up with the papers that came out this (boreal) summer: we start with @alexturvy.bsky.social with a comparative analysis of how TikTok and Instagram shape the conditions for cultural production through their platform configurations. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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SFB 1265 @sfb1265.bsky.social · 29d
New article out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!
"Toward a platform–labor–territory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes"
by #sfb1265 PhD Scholar @jyelee.bsky.social 👇📰
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · Jul 8
Digital payments against the convenience of cash? Read more from our editor @msteinbrg.bsky.social writing about PayPay, Japanese convenience stores, and the digital payment wars of the late 2010s. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · Jul 8
One the fine line between surveillance, protection and punishment, Carmela Morgillo and Salomé Lannier's recent piece addresses important questions of platform governance and sexual exploitstion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 22
How is the fungibility of money<->data in #credit relations intermediated? Writing about #India, in a recent paper Rahul Mukherjee traces the #platform #intermediation processes in the loan app ecosystem. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 22
thank you #logisticalcity project @arminb.bsky.social for the continued support logistical.city
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 22
Hard to explain how happy we are about the first multimedia publication out in our journal: Maja-Lee Voigt - Mapping #Amazon 's logistical footprint on the #Ruhr journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... a collage isometry of Amazon's layers in the EU warehouse capital
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 20
Another #paperaltert: in our latest article, Jess Brand and @linadencik.bsky.social examine how postal workers's identities at Royal Mail UK are being reshaped by the #Amazonification of their work: this change isn't just about privatization, but driven by algorithmic mgt shorturl.at/DMHKX
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 20
Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A screenshot of the first page of the paper
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 12
Join us in 30 min ! Join Zoom Meeting NewSchool.zoom.us/j/9834828717...
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AdTech Project @adtechproject.bsky.social · May 12
We look forward to the conversation today, coming up at 2PM BST/9AM EST. Join us.
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 11
A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · May 11
A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
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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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