Platformization
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Recent papers in Platformization
This article focuses on WeChat, which remains China’s most iconic mobile application. After offering a short history of WeChat’s development and growth, the next section reviews popular narratives of Tencent’s messaging app--ranging from... more
The prominent role played by algorithmic platforms in people’s everyday lives has in recent years triggered a growing interest towards algorithmic imaginaries, intended as worlds of experience users make of the algorithmic media, thereby... more
Book Review of Ramon Lobato's book "Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution"
Entre os anos de 2013 e 2018, o Brasil passou por um período de desestabilização das instituições democráticas, que levou à Presidência um defensor do regime ditatorial e de torturas. As mídias sociais foram frequentemente apontadas como... more
Purpose: Platformization is one of the most insightful theoretical frameworks with an exceptional potential to provide a fine-grained ground for understanding how digital platforms contribute to the development of the media industry by... more
The purpose of the article is to discuss the negotiations and tensions between the platform Facebook and the news companies during the implementation of the Instant Articles (IA) project. Launched in 2015 to facilitate the creation of... more
Introduction: In recent years, digital platforms, especially mobile instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, have become essential tools for local administrations. Changes in the habits of the population, more likely to... more
The COVID-19 pandemic has consolidated a double move. On the one hand, universities are becoming increasingly aware of the strategic value of copyright. On the other hand, the necessity to embrace distance education is making universities... more
A key concern in international policy debates about articulating oversight of digital platform markets involves policy silos, arising from the scope of platformization and datafication, and the challenges in defining their policy... more
This article explores how the political economy of the cultural industries changes through platformization: the penetration of economic and infrastructural extensions of online platforms into the web, affecting the production,... more
The project studies the entry of digital platforms into India’s domestic and care work sector. We find that platforms rely on and amplify unequal structures of power that workers already experience. We use a feminist lens to critique... more
The article focuses on the analysis of the social agency of digital platforms through the lens of the value-based perspective. The specificity of the social reality of platforms is their dependence on the generation of content by users,... more
This presentation outlines my current research on the relationship between AI art practices promoted by social media platforms and the naturalization of facial recognition technologies.
Although the platformization process has been intensively studied, a better understanding is needed of how it has affected media dynamics such as the formation of media memory. The original contribution of this paper to the research field... more
Digital mobility platforms such as “Uber” are forms of passenger transportation that have become integral parts of the mobility landscape of cities. The policy response to these services has varied across the world, from complete... more
This article proposes a new model of privacy: infrastructural surveillance. It departs from Agre’s classic distinction between surveillance and capture by examining the sociotechnical claims of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) as... more
How can the ubiquitous digitalization in the early 21st century be grasped and characterized? A media-change perspective that focuses on innovation-driven, complex co-evolutionary processes points to the following characteristics:... more
Internet pidi meid vabaks tegema. Aga ei teinud. Pigem vastupidi. Sellest, miks nii läks ja mis saab edasi, käesolev essee ongi. Aga alustagem algusest. Juba rohkem kui paar aastatuhandet on laialt tuntud lugu sellest, kuidas maailm loodi... more
Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of their job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time, profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital platforms exhort workers to “be creative.” Even as... more
This thesis examines how recording artists and professionals understood the impact of music streaming services in the Australian market between 2017 and 2018. During this period, services such as Spotify and Apple Music emerged as the... more