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Niklas Strüver
@enriya.bsky.social
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Studying voice assistants as a PhD Student @media of cooperation at Uni Siegen Germany.
Interests are: digital infrastructures and platforms | sociology of technology & STS (he/him)
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/personen/struever-niklas/
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This is Amazon using Alexa as a platform to centralize market power for the smart home: "Shielding" users from the complexity of setting up an their smart home by hiding it behind LLMs and further gatekeeping other smart home manufacturers, as more informational flows go through Amazon. 2/7
A circular graphic describing the relationship between Amazon, Smart Home dwellers and original equipment manufacturers. Throughout the graphic, various sources of influence that extend from Amazon towards the original equipment manufacturers can be traced with the ultimate goal to shape the technologies in the smart home. The platform characteristics of Alexa result in most smart home devices at least having the necessary connection nodes to be compatible with Alexa, giving Amazon market power.
February 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Arrived last week's Monday in Melbourne for a three month research stay @monashuniversity.bsky.social's Emerging Technology Lab led by Sarah Pink. Thrilled to be here!Temporarily in the gorgeous Victoria State Library while not at the ETL✨Thanks to @daadworldwide.bsky.social for help with funding.🙏
A victorian area library photographed from the second floor, showing various workplaces and bookshelves. The ceiling is made of milky glass and soft light warms the vast room.
January 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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“Frustration Free: How Alexa Orchestrates the Development of the Smart Home” deals with Amazon’s #Alexa and how they domesticate their third party #platform ecosystem #voiceassistants
The graphic shows a flowchart that outlines the production process for smart home devices that are supposed to integrate Alexa as a voice interface into their devices. It highlights Amazon's platform power while emphasising "orchestration" as the central idea of soft power exertion.
November 13, 2024 at 9:20 PM
enriya.bsky.social
Super happy to have been part in the organising of this years program for the CRC's lecture series "Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance". Come and pay us a visit, if you're interested in any of the talks and discussions. :)
October 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Gestern ist mein zweiter Artikel im Rahmen meiner Dissertation am SFB Medien der Kooperation bei Kommunikation@Gesellschaft erschienen [Open Access]! ✨✨Nach Personalkürzungen in Amazons Alexa-Team letztes Jahr frage ich "Wieso eigentlich Alexa?". Spoiler: Es hat was mit Infrastrukturen zu tun 1/8🧵
A graphic that describes the circuit of development through and with Alexa
November 25, 2023 at 4:00 PM