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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

was fun following trucks and knocking on warehouse doors

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 👇

Already missing this crew - a fantastic workshop. I always learn more than what I can teach

How do platforms produce "helpful" reviewers/consumers? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Check this out - most recent piece in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social on Royal Mail becoming more and more like Amazon ⬇️

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.

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

It was a fantastic symposium! Thank you @adtechproject.bsky.social for co-hosting and the wonderful speakers Koray Çaliskan Donald MacKenzie @addiemcgowan.bsky.social @devikanarayan.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social and @gilliantett.bsky.social

A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!

new piece out

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Looks like we have a new paper out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with some collective reflections on global infrastructure and cities / w brilliant @eliapos.bsky.social Jon Silver, Francesca Governa, and Simone Vegliò

Join us on Monday @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @julieychen.bsky.social

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. Nuñez. Enjoy 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Amazing work ⬇️⬇️

A very interesting map of Google search as a supply chain ⬇️⬇️

Very happy to see this wonderful piece - which couldn’t have arrived at a better moment - published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!

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New piece out ! I learnt a lot about MLMs - kinda another one of the OGs of platform business models

New paper out: Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised multi-level marketing scheme in which Jacob Ørmen, Andreas Gregersen,Anne Thorhauge, and Linea Petersen write about how platformized MLMs generate cycles of precarity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Short but sweet rethinking of globalization via the convenience store (and other things): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t... To which I would say, read this for a longer account that thinks about its impacts in Asia, as well: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal. with @fennaimara.bsky.social

Children's charred remains found in aftermath of Israeli strike on 'safe zone' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/childrens-charred-remains-found-aftermath-israeli-strike

Israeli air raids kill 35 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-raids-kill-35-palestinians-across-gaza-dawn

This is very, very, very bad

Excited to be listening to Mahmoud Hawari with @michelelancione.bsky.social and Tamara Taher and Pietro Battaglini on Palestine and the weaponization of heritage #beyondinhabitationlab #torino

Your fascism is homegrown, USians, it's not imported from South Africa. With all the horrors of Apartheid, the actual fascist Afrikaner movement in SA was minuscule.

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/...

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

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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)

Call for abstracts ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

We are on bsky ! Or better, our journal is. Follow for more

Must read! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Platform economies have both histories of production and lineages of consumption

Come and join us at LSE! Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

“I don’t like either side. They are not working for the public. They are just struggling for their power,” he said. “They said Tigray would be strong, and independent. But despite sacrificing so much, we are still poor – starving.” www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

The auteurist state amid unfolding digital futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@acc-uct.bsky.social wonderful to be back at the African Centre for Cities for the conviviality of staff meetings #africancities

Big thanks to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social for allowing us to think with their work !

Accelerated statecraft in the Silicon Savannah - Jack Odeo and I wrote a short commentary to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social 's piece on time and digitalization in Kenya journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

[NEWS]: Website is live. planetaryai.net Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective 1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.