Rahul Mukherjee
@rahmuk.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Penn CIMS. Wrote "Radiant Infrastructures" (DUP, 2020). Just completed "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT, 2026)." Platforms, Energy, Environment
The Media, Science and Technology (MST) SIG is in Spotlight, thanks to an insightful piece by Gary Kafer and Patrick Brian Smith, explaining the relationship between the three constitutive terms, each of which as we all know can mean a lot of different things: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
February 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
The Media, Science and Technology (MST) SIG is in Spotlight, thanks to an insightful piece by Gary Kafer and Patrick Brian Smith, explaining the relationship between the three constitutive terms, each of which as we all know can mean a lot of different things: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
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Super 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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Super 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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A latergram about a wonderful visit to Concordia University to deliver a talk related to my forthcoming book. Many thanks to Marc, Josh, and Ishita for the invitation and their hospitality. It was amazing to engage in conversations with Montreal's vibrant media and communication studies community.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A latergram about a wonderful visit to Concordia University to deliver a talk related to my forthcoming book. Many thanks to Marc, Josh, and Ishita for the invitation and their hospitality. It was amazing to engage in conversations with Montreal's vibrant media and communication studies community.
I wrote a fresh paper on financial intermediaries in the loan app ecosystem based on interviews with data analysts, lending platform professionals, consumer rights groups, and financial journalists for Platforms & Society journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I wrote a fresh paper on financial intermediaries in the loan app ecosystem based on interviews with data analysts, lending platform professionals, consumer rights groups, and financial journalists for Platforms & Society journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Rahul Mukherjee
“Whatever the cause, the energy industry’s crystal balls often produce overcooked figures.”
www.reuters.com/breakingview...
www.reuters.com/breakingview...
AI power demand is generating hallucinations
Chatbot-running data centers are expected to guzzle 12% of US electricity by 2030. Yet tech giants and utilities are best served by over-estimating demand. Disconnects between, say, Microsoft’s project cancellations and its astonishing growth may worsen, shaking the supply chain.
www.reuters.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“Whatever the cause, the energy industry’s crystal balls often produce overcooked figures.”
www.reuters.com/breakingview...
www.reuters.com/breakingview...
Reposted by Rahul Mukherjee
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/...