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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.
And another paper alert: Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra quantifies harassment for Canadian content creators. While widespread, consequences are qualitatively different (and worse) for marginalized creators, hindering their labour. Platforms must step up. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...
New paper alert! Alexandros Minotakis argues the EU's AI regulatory framework is dangerously fragmented, assuming harmony between labor and capital. The paper advocates for a worker-centred lens across all algorithmically managed workplaces. #PlatformGovernance journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Yes! Very happy to see that this great conversation is now out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social.
Marc Steinberg@msteinbrg.bsky.social · 9mo agoSuper excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"The vortex of visibility" pulls authors in emerging economies towards #platformization. Rosie Nguyen's paper on Vietnamese authors reveals how they navigate publishing norms vs. global platform capitalism, leveraging platform affordances to protect creativity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The 'Salesforce of safety' is here. Lucas Wright's new article investigates the rising power of third-party software vendors in online trust & safety. They are mediating between platforms, recasting moderation as preemptive risk management. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online "https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-pns/pns-1-digital_platform_economies_value_from_data/pns
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/...
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!
Great paper on the importance of political consumerism from @awirz.bsky.social!
Platforms & Society@platformsnsociety.bsky.social · last yr.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/...
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....
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....
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....
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 👇📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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/...
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/...
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/...
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
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
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 reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
Platforms & Society@platformsnsociety.bsky.social · last yr.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)
In our latest paper, Federico de Stavola explores the structural heterogeneity of platform labour realities in Latin America, drawing on world systems and dependency theories journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
Platforms & Society@platformsnsociety.bsky.social · last yr.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)
The Platforms and Society journal and AdTech Research Project present an Online Symposium How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)
This is gonna be great - join if you can!! 💥
Platforms & Society@platformsnsociety.bsky.social · last yr.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)
A day of announcements: also flagging another recently published paper on the labor behind Amazon's audiobook value chain - from a feminist Latina perspective. Authored by Ruth L. Nuñez. Enjoy 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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)
A must-read @platformsnsociety.bsky.social: Prodexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan "search engines are not engines, it examines Google Search as a supply chain..." 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...
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Very happy to see this wonderful piece - which couldn’t have arrived at a better moment - published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!
Platforms & Society@platformsnsociety.bsky.social · last yr.New paper: check it out! What does it mean to rethink Google Search as a supply chain for how we understand platform economies?
New paper: check it out! What does it mean to rethink Google Search as a supply chain for how we understand platform economies?
AdTech Project@adtechproject.bsky.social · last yr.Huge thanks to @platformsnsociety.bsky.social for publishing our most recent project output. It argues that we need to reimagine Google Search as a supply chain, not a search engine. Check it out, open access, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...