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Mikko Laamanen
@mikkolaamanen.bsky.social
🪆: 🇫🇮🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🇩🇪 🧑🏻‍🔬: Professor @sifoforsk.bsky.social • Coordinator @ ESA RN05 Sociology of Consumption • Interested in #everydaypolitics of #technology , #sustainability & #socialchange 💖: Healthy obsession with #opera & #obscurereferences 🪐: ♊️♎️♌️
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Now out! My and @kvasudevan.bsky.social's new edited book, featuring stellar contributions grappling with the politics of digital platforms expanding and attempting to reshape politics, economics, and social relations in their extractive image.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Platforms, Power, and Friction | Pawel Popiel, Krishnan Vasudevan | Ta
This edited book deconstructs the myth of frictionless digital platform expansion, revealing the persistent "platform frictions" that shape platform economies
www.taylorfrancis.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Presenting Algorithmic Luddism or how refusal, resistance and reimagination is possible in algorithmic systems and societies!

A fruit of collaboration with @vasichar.bsky.social and @tuukka.bsky.social

@sifoforsk.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 5:06 PM
✨ Celebration, publication! ✨ Glitter and be gay! ✨

✨ Our edited book "Drag as Marketplace" is out today on @brisunipress.bsky.social

This is a work in fabulosity - a unique approach to a market, written with nerve and with the talent of a wonderful group of authors!

Available now! Get it! ✨
November 28, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Ecological frictions in the platform economy exposed!

The fruit of my wonderful collaboration with Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając is out in print in the @icsjournal.bsky.social special issue on platform capitalism’s frictions.

It's open access, see it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment
Digital platforms are underpinned by the ideal of a frictionless market, obscuring the simultaneous practices of market monopolisation and the restriction of consumer choice and movement. This conc...
www.tandfonline.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:21 AM
📢 The RN05 Sociology of Consumption mid-term conference call for papers is out! 📢 Have a look and join us in charting the consumption territories in Prague! 🗺️

consumption2025.fhs.cuni.cz
November 27, 2024 at 2:45 PM