#platform-studies — Public Fediverse posts

✨ new project ✨ "k-platforms: codeveloping tools and methods for studying digital platforms and cultures in South Korea" with @lbngr Chamee Yang & June Jeon: https://jonathangray.org/2026/04/16/k-platforms
#kakao #naver #apps #southkorea #platformstudies #internetstudies

There will be a book on the #Atari #8bit computers from Pawel Grabarczyk in the #PlatformStudies series this autumn:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/830569/at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-by-pawel-grabarczyk/

#HelloESR #Introduction Hello from “Blood and Data Flows: Exploring MenstruTech,” a French ANR-funded research project led by @moossye .

We study menstrual cycle tracking apps from the perspective of user practices as well as their back-end infrastructures. We are currently wrapping up a year-long investigation with app designers and with scientists who conduct research using the data these platforms generate. Our work is grounded in #Feminist and #Queer #STS, and examines how data derived from gendered bodily experiences circulate—and how knowledge is produced from them.

Oh, and btw, we also monitor how conservative and neo-fascist movements weaponize digital technologies against minorities… because we enjoy keeping things light and optimistic.

#FeministSTS #QueerStudies #DigitalHealth #DataStudies #CriticalData #PlatformStudies #GenderAndTechnology #ReproductiveHealth #QualitativeResearch

#Algorithms #AlgorithmicMedia #PlatformStudies: "Overall, this book has all the potential to become a classic in the literature on the composite relationships between users and digital technologies. While it is going to be of great appeal for all the scholars within the fields of critical algorithm and platform studies, readers from diverse backgrounds interested in issues related to the use of technology can find the book easily accessible given the clarity of the theoretical framework and development, the poignancy of the discussed empirical cases and the overall lucidity of the argument construction."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2388092

The platform studies book by José P. Zagal and @benjedwards dedicated to the Virtual Boy is out and… available in open access!!! ❤️

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5781/Seeing-RedNintendo-s-Virtual-Boy

#VirtualBoy #PlatformStudies #GameStudies

Hi everyone 👋🏻 --- I’m co-organising a hybrid talk series on Sound & AI in the Cultural Industries over the coming months at UvA. All are welcome to join us online.

More info and rsvp link here: https://www.rmes.nl/lecture-series-sound-ai-in-cultural-industries/

#AIVoice #PlatformStudies #PodcastStudies #DataStudies

@lbngr If #platformstudies is a thing now, where could I read more?

I'm mostly interested in accounts of platform commoning, but would like to see how other heterodox economies perform. What is a #Degrowth platform, or how do platforms benefit coops and SSEs?

Somehow it also feels connected to the #GigEconomy work by Mark Graham. Sadly moving off Twitter split all those ties from my PoV.

New article on GitHub and the platformisation of software development by @lbngr in Convergence: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/12/08/github-platformisation/

The article is accompanied by a set of free tools codeveloped with @dmi for researching Github.

#platformstudies #platformisation #newmedia #mediastudies #softwarestudies #digitalmethods #commodon #socialmedia #github #opensource

2/2 The software tools used to collect GitHub data for this study were created at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and are freely accessible to researchers and students interested in studying GitHub: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase?cat=DeviceCentric&subcat=Github #CulturalStudies #mediastudies #internetstudies #platformstudies

1/2 My article on GitHub and the platformization of software development just got published: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231205867. I’m grateful to colleagues who helped with this inc. Erik Borra, Emile den Tex, Sam Leon, @MJBroersma @markdeuze, Carolin Gerlitz, @jwyg Jean-Christophe Plantin, Karin Raeymaeckers, Richard Rogers, Tommaso Venturini and Esther Weltevrede. #CulturalStudies #mediastudies #internetstudies #platformstudies

Demain, le cours Algorithmes et structures de données est consacré à la compression de données. Mon collègue donne la première heure sur le fonctionnement de l'algorithme derrière le format JPEG, tandis que je ferai un exposé sur l'encodage des niveaux de Super Mario Bros. Ainsi, c'est avec énormément de bonheur que je relis le chapitre 4 du I AM ERROR (2015) de Nathan Altice. Quel ouvrage. #GameStudies #PlatformStudies #UNIL #LettresUNIL

Depuis cette rentrée, nous publions des travaux de nos étudiants et étudiantes sur un carnet de recherche Hypothèses.

Le premier est consacré à la #Microvision, cette console portable de la fin des années 1970 qui a connu une douzaine de jeux.

«Microvision: de combien micro est-il le nombre ?», par Théo Rochat

https://jeulausanne.hypotheses.org/84

#GameStudies #SciencesDuJeu #PlatformStudies #UNIL #LettresUNIL #VideoGames #Retrogaming

Out today: "Google Radio Automation and the broadcast plights behind platformization" https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231203616 🔓

in which I narrate the weird story of Google's late-aughts entry into the radio industry and argue that the recession, on top of "traditional" media consolidation, played a decisive role in spurring the rhetorical and infrastructural separation of the streaming/platform model as a "new" medium

#commodon #mediastudies #radiostudies #platformstudies

@GamingNews The true origins of #PlatformStudies

✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep

Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep

Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research

Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep

Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

Can people engage in debates about digitisation using indigenous languages? How does linguistic colonialism manifest itself in digital technologies? What are the implications of digital platform use for the future of African languages?

Looking forward to this online event on "African languages and technological transformations: debating knowledge, rights and power on a digital continent":
http://kingsdh.net/2023/02/23/africa-week/

#digitalhumanities #digitalculture #digitalrights #platformstudies #colonialism #linguisticcolonialism #decolonisation #language #africanlanguages #commodon #mediastudies #internetstudies #africaweek

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

A database of scientific papers on platforms : https://platformpapers.com/dashboard/

However, if it shows works on video games, it doesn't seem to include research in #PlatformStudies

One of the core points of #PlatformStudies is the definition of the platform as 'programmable'. But what is the state of todays platforms programmability?

I haven't talked to many developers in this field recently, but where are these things built upon corporate platforms? Where is the ecosystem of third-party Instagram clients? Where are the apps built upon TikToks APIs?

Have you ever watched a Turkish drama on #Netflix? I'm asking for a research design for #PlatformStudies, if you watched would you share your thoughts on it?

I'm curious about how you discover the content, whether the suggestion #algorithm helps or not, etc.

I'll be very happy for any answers or boosts. 💜

#Commodon #CommunicationStudies #MediaStudies #PhdLife

A remarkable 180 to see #meta desperately try to cook the #engagement books (metrics that their ad clients need to see in order to spend the big bucks) by persuading folks to make a finsta /sign up for more profiles.
Mind you, not long ago the same company required folks to upload copies of state ID cards to verify that their accounts were using actual names vs pseudonyms.
Between this and the reels push, oh how the mighty have fallen… #commodon #socialmedia #platformstudies

Hey friends. I'm a 4th year PhD Candidate at the #Umich School of Information. Researching the Big Tech-ification of the U.S. healthcare industry. Some tags I guess to make myself findable: #feministHCI #STS #criticaldatastudies #platformstudies