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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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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/...

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

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

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/...

Join us in 30 min ! Join Zoom Meeting NewSchool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... Password: 690528

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

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/...

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

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 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)

This is gonna be great - join if you can!! 💥

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/...

EVENT ALERT: Platforms and Society and @adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)

A must-read @platformsnsociety.bsky.social: Prodexchange: Digital–industrial 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..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

New paper: check it out! What does it mean to rethink Google Search as a supply chain for how we understand platform economies?

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/...

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 ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

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/...

Call for abstracts ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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...

If you want to find our about our latest paper, ‘Eyo, mixed girl check’: The commodification of embodied performance in the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok, check out this thread by @ananzinga.bsky.social - amazing work!

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A 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!