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.
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...
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
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....
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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....
"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....
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"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....
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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....
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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....
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/...
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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!
September 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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!
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....
September 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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....
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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....
September 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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....
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/...
July 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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/...
July 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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/...
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
May 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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/...
May 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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/...
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/...
May 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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/...
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)
@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)
May 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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)
@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)