Last but not least, Ellie Rennie's piece considers the role of "contribution systems" in creating βinterobjective valueβ through ledgers of data dependencies journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online
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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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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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Great paper on the importance of political consumerism from @awirz.bsky.social!
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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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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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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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New article out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!
"Toward a platformβlaborβterritory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes"
by #sfb1265 PhD Scholar @jyelee.bsky.social ππ°
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A screenshot of the paper abstract
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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One the fine line between surveillance, protection and punishment, Carmela Morgillo and SalomΓ© Lannier's recent piece addresses important questions of platform governance and sexual exploitstion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Title page of paper, with author's name, title, abstract and keywords
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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logistical.city
thank you #logisticalcity project @arminb.bsky.social for the continued support logistical.city
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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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A screenshot of the first page of the paper PDF with title, authors, keywords, and abstract.
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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A screenshot of the first page of the paper
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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Join us in 30 min ! Join Zoom Meeting NewSchool.zoom.us/j/9834828717...
Password: 690528
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A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
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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/...
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A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
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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 | 9:00β10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST)
Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)
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This is gonna be great - join if you can!! π₯
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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. NuΓ±ez. Enjoy π
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Melbourne Law School, CI at ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society - Studying data governance, data commodification, and automated decision-making.
Social scientist - BlockScience, RMIT University, BlockchainGov
kelsien.github.io
Professor of Media Studies @UofT β’ Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) β’ Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) β’ Toronto/Amsterdam
PhD candidate, Penn State, Information, HCI, Social Media, STS; On the Job Market.
Dean, College of Liberal Arts @ Colorado State University (media/youth/politics/citizenship/digital), TV watcher, mom.
Internet culture researcher | PhD Candidate in Sociology | alexturvy.com
architect & researcher
with @gyaw gyaw and @sfb1265
Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College; freshly minted PhD from University of Michigan School of Info. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
https://www.federicodestavola.com/
Senior researcher in Urban & Housing Geography / Editor @radicalhousing.bsky.social / PI 'EnactDECOM' (ERC CoG) / housing decommodification / spatial justice /
prof at Leuphana Uni, https://logistical.city, http://smartnesswealth.net, organization studies, STS, media studies, formerly @arminbev T/X,
Professor and University Research Leader in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Data Civics Observatory & @adtechproject.bsky.social. University of Edinburgh (Sociology and EFI). Academic by way of digital marketing strategist. Memphis, TN + Edinburgh, UK.
Political philosopher working on critical theory, the digitalization of work, platform capitalism, and anything else going wrong in the world. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University.
doing a phd
researching webcam sex platforms https://www.plexxxi.org
owner of a last name you are scared to pronounce out loud
|| in my heart always a researcher at oilab https://oilab.eu
Postdoctoral fellow at @irms-concordia.bsky.social (IRMS) and @bridgdivides.bsky.social, new technologies, platform labour, food delivery, trucking and migration. York University PhD alum
www.emilebaril.com
Research Fellow in Future Flight @SchoolofEng_UoB @unibirmingham.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | interested in technology, innovation & society | π³οΈβπ he/him
Academic (Dr.), Geographer, Tinkerer, Blabberer, Writer. Testing this space. Interests: Tech | Work | Political Economies | Cities | Global Dev | Dissident Cultures | Friends and Community | Neurodivergence | Will block faceless bioless follows
