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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.
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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/...
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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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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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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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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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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/...
20.05.2025 12:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Join us in 30 min ! Join Zoom Meeting NewSchool.zoom.us/j/9834828717...
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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/...
11.05.2025 11:15 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1A 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)
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08.05.2025 09:57 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0A 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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With presenters Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan and responses by @devikanarayan.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social and Gillian Tett discussing a recent paper published last week journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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EVENT ALERT: Platforms and Society and
@adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium
12 May 2025 | 9:00β10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)
A must-read @platformsnsociety.bsky.social:
Prodexchange: Digitalβindustrial 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..."
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Very happy to see this wonderful piece - which couldnβt have arrived at a better moment - published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!
30.04.2025 12:07 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0New paper: check it out! What does it mean to rethink Google Search as a supply chain for how we understand platform economies?
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New paper out: Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised multi-level marketing scheme in which
Jacob Γrmen, Andreas Gregersen,Anne Thorhauge, and Linea Petersen write about how platformized MLMs generate cycles of precarity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Labor-atories of Digital Economies: Latin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation. In this new article, I theorize how digital labor contexts update informality, dependency, solidarity economies in Latin America, considering data/AI work, etc
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Reposting another recently published paper in which @palomaviot.bsky.social and @rscarlets.bsky.social write about how Alt Right platforms reinterpret the value of safety journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
14.04.2025 17:26 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Call for abstracts β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
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Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
08.04.2025 13:25 β π 12 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1If you want to find our about our latest paper, βEyo, mixed girl checkβ: The commodification of embodied performance in the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok, check out this thread by @ananzinga.bsky.social - amazing work!
07.04.2025 19:51 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0We are on bsky ! Or better, our journal is. Follow for more
07.04.2025 19:46 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0A quick announcement from the editors @julieychen.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social that we are now live on bsky. We will be posting updates about Platforms & Society on here. Follow to keep abreast!
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