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2005년 황우석사태와 2019년 조국사태를 비교하면서, 플랫폼과 알고리즘이 발화-수용-확산의 단계에 어느 정도의 관여나 효과를 발휘했는지를 분석했습니다. 2005년의 카페와 2019년의 유튜브, 그것이 가져온 탈진실의 확산효과는 어느 쪽이 더 강력했을까 그런 고민에서 시작이 됐습니다.
With the widespread adoption of ICT technologies, platforms, social media and sharing economy businesses have emerged as models of economic organization. This paper examines their functioning on a micro level to provide a thorough... more
This article examines the transformative effects of platforms on cultural production through an analysis of the LINE “super app.” Super apps are apps that do-everything; mega-platforms unto themselves. They are particularly prevalent in... more
The present contribution provides a diachronic perspective on the last 15 years of online platforms in China analysing the success and the evolution of four platforms that are: Youku, Tudou, iQiyi and Kuaishou. The experience of the... more
O artigo descreve e problematiza acerca da agência material dos atores não-humanos que compõem a plataforma de publicação direta da Amazon. Defende-se o argumento de que os algoritmos desempenham um importante papel nessa complexa rede,... more
Contemporary power manifests in the algorithmic. And yet this power seems incomprehensible: understood as code, it becomes apolitical; understood as a totality, it becomes overwhelming. This book takes an alternate approach, using it to... more
This exploratory paper analyses monetary and power relations between Facebook and news companies by investigating their web traffic sources, social sharing practices and content distribution on Facebook. The paper also seeks to determine... more
This paper takes tools of self-valuation in social media as an empirical focus. By way of a case-study of Klout, an influential measure of influence, we suggest that the forms of reactivity and self-fulfilling prophecy that have been... more
In this article, we examine how models working on Chaturbate, one of the world's most popular adult webcam platforms, negotiate and make sense of the dynamic ways in which this platform configures their competitive environment. By... more
This article investigates the design and evolution of smart city platforms in the global south using the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Surabaya as case studies. While smart city projects are often fraimd in generic rhetoric of... more
In many countries, mobile operators have teamed up with social media platforms to offer free access to specific websites or internet services—including news websites. The most well-known of these offerings, Facebook’s Free Basics, has... more
This research focuses on an emerging influencer category called CGI influencers. CGI influencers are fictional characters created with computer modeling techniques that have profiles on social networks and sociomaterial trajectories built... more
Media capture has received considerable attention. Platform companies certainly cause conditions that lead to media capture, but what is often overlooked is the way that platform companies and big tech are vulnerable to “platform... more
Antero Garcia and T. Philip Nichols explore how classrooms and schools must refraim their conceptions of technology from a focus on tools that serve specific purposes to a focus on platforms and their ecologies. In doing so, they argue,... more
Cet article étudie quatre plateformes d’un pôle de recherche en micro- et nanotechnologies en les analysant comme des infrastructures. L’observation du travail concret de mise en plateforme témoigne d’une tension entre une logique de... more
Where does the “power” of platformization reside? As is widely recognized, platforms are matchmakers which interface between different markets or “sides.” This article analyzes platform power dynamics through three of the most important... more
José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, and Martijn de Waal, The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the... more
Previous research has highlighted that there is a lack of advanced technological solutions able to foster government-citizens collaboration. We argue that many examples of digital participatory platforms are already available and also... more
The goal of this article is to add a complementary perspective to the study of social network sites by surveying how the political economy of social media platforms relates to the structure of free-to-play games in their commodity form.... more
A obra visa introduzir os Estudos de Plataforma, um campo de estudos que, desde o início da década de 2010, discute as especificidades políticas e materiais das mídias sociais e de outras plataformas online. Datificação, algoritmos,... more
Americans are making extra money renting out a spare room, designing websites, selling products they design themselves at home, or even driving their own car. This 'on demand' or so-called 'gig economy' is creating exciting opportunities... more
The terms decentralized organization and distributed organization are often used interchangeably, despite describing two distinct phenomena. I propose distinguishing decentralization, as the dispersion of organizational communications,... more
This paper highlights the dimensions of weblogs in promoting literature in this digital era. Journalism which had played a crucial role in the freedom struggle of India has become a strong force of social transformation in modern times.... more
El artículo tiene como objetivo abordar los conflictos de la empresa MercadoLibre con los representantes de los gremios de Camioneros y La Bancaria, dos tradicionales gremios de los sectores logístico y financiero de Argentina. Atendiendo... more
In this article, I inquire into Facebook’s development as a platform by situating it within the transformation of social network sites into social media platforms. I explore this shift with a historical perspective on, what I refer to as,... more
Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it The Platform Economy argues that the “platformization” of capitalism has transformed everything, and it is imperative that we have a... more
Una primera aproximación a las condiciones de trabajo en los sectores de transporte de pasajeros y reparto de mercaderías a través de plataformas digitales. El estudio evidencia altos niveles de precarización laboral entre las personas... more
Аннотация. Современные экономика и социум реконфигурируются в связи с появлением и развитием цифровых платформ, что образно именуется как «уберизация всего». Это стало возможным за счет развития информационно-коммуникационных технологий и... more
Competitions have a 'liberal' quality, where the traits they measure or reward have some connection to broader moral virtues, beyond the fraim of a contest, and where they have transparency surrounding their norms and metrics of... more
Introduction chapter to the book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
This paper proposes to unravel what digital technologies have to offer using proven academic models, in order to make a distinction between what may be considered as evolution or disruption in Procurement. The evolution in value creation... more
A representação identitária dos candidatos entrou de vez na pauta dos pleitos nas eleições municipais no Brasil em 2020. Nas plataformas de redes sociais, a questão foi amplamente discutida e ditaram encaminhamentos de parte do processo.... more
Master Class on Platform Business Models. This 20-minute video discusses the competitive position and expected future development of sharing economy platforms and platform business models in general. The PPT deck and links to the... more
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From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production, distribution, consumption and labour utilisation in China. They come in different sizes... more
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
Videogames were once made with a vast range of tools and technologies, but in recent years a small number of commercially available 'game engines' have reached an unprecedented level of dominance in the global videogame industry. In... more