@andretwp.bsky.social
Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Awesome themed issue - on value and platform economies
22.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
16.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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....
12.09.2025 08:18 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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....
12.09.2025 08:24 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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....
12.09.2025 08:29 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Thank you :)
01.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Of course inspired by @shannonmattern.bsky.social @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @kathleenstokes.bsky.social and others
01.09.2025 10:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ever wondered what the geography of disruption looks like from aboard an Internet cable ship? Between sea monsters and pirates, robots and colonial magnates, we tell this story here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @acc-uct.bsky.social
01.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Apply for the UTA-Do 2026 workshop happening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from February 9-13. This time round, we have 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Read more here: sites.google.com/view/uta-do/...
Apply by 30 September 2025!
Calling all scholars in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and other eligible countries! 🎓 The UTA-Do African Cities Summer School 2026 has 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Apply! Deadline: Sept 30, 2025. @andretwp.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/uta-do/...
11.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Can't wait to read it!
08.08.2025 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gender, caste, and street vending in Mumbai: a situated intersectional geography
I'm officially a Dr. now!!
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
Who's the new Dr in town!?
Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai
👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
It was such a wonderful dissertation to read and viva to attend
17.07.2025 12:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it's here!
Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa
my book has arrived.
a brief 🧵
Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
08.04.2025 17:58 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Yesss!
11.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#Somalia
After 1 week of clashes , Al-Shabaab takes control of Ceel Hareeri.
Many local militias are seen dead in the published photos by Al-Shabaab.
Amsterdam friend @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social please share with your blue media network :)
11.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next week: ASCA Global Africa book salon with @tommytse.bsky.social @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Carywn Morris and me uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220 join online or in Amsterdam
11.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Cannot wait! To see friends @tommytse.bsky.social @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and make new ones in this xchnage
04.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
22.05.2025 09:31 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3was fun following trucks and knocking on warehouse doors
22.05.2025 10:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age?
Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress
in @compchange.bsky.social
Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024...
It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:
awesome work - so great it's out 👇
22.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Already missing this crew - a fantastic workshop. I always learn more than what I can teach
20.05.2025 12:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How do platforms produce "helpful" reviewers/consumers? ⬇️⬇️⬇️
20.05.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check this out - most recent piece in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social on Royal Mail becoming more and more like Amazon ⬇️
20.05.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very valuable meeting point in academic journey.
Team 'platform without borders'
Thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @andretwp.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian for putting this together.
A room full of people
Brilliant people at the Platforms without borders workshop in London #Space4 #platforms thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for the wonderful hosting and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social Denise Kasparian @marcsteinberg.bsky.social
16.05.2025 09:46 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
