Cheryll Soriano
cheryllsoriano.bsky.social
Cheryll Soriano
@cheryllsoriano.bsky.social
platforms, digital labor
Prof @DLSUComm; Editor@Platforms&Society; Fairwork Philippines; Author, Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube
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And another piece for our readers: Margherita Di Cicco & Davide Beraldo explore how sex workers engage in cross-platform promotion more than in the production of sexual content itself, arguing that precarious success on OF depends on cross-platform dependency journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Another recent one! Amir Anwar explores how platform workers in Africa are building self-organized networks to exert power and rework the system for their benefit, demonstrating resilience and agency outside of traditional unions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Hot off the press: Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph and @nieborg.bsky.social trace a platform historiography of #Unity to discuss how workflows create dexterous corporate lockins in cultural production journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... enjoy!
September 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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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
May 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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We’ve poured much care into crafting this piece; please read and share! See full paper below 👇 Thank you, Julie Yujie Chen, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, Andrea Pollio, @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social, and @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social for being such a home for us! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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May 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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 👇
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May 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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)
May 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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New paper: check it out! What does it mean to rethink Google Search as a supply chain for how we understand platform economies?
April 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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/...
‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety - Paloma Viejo Otero, Rebecca Scharlach, 2025
This article explores how Alt Tech platforms – Parler, Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, BitChute, Odyssey, Gettr, and Minds – conceptualise a core social media value:...
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April 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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!
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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📘 “We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety”

New paper by our lab members @palomaviot.bsky.social and @rscarlets.bsky.social published today in the Platforms & Society Journal!

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#values #safety
March 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:

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Power Currents: Asian Media in the World - University of Pittsburgh Press
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March 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🚨 NEW BLOG from Fairwork Philippines 🇵🇭 on the health and safety hazards for workers due to climate change induced extreme weather events: https://buff.ly/4hjWgV7

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January 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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New article published in the Platforms & Society journal. The platformization of the follower factory: para-platforms, automation, and labor in the market for social media engagements, by Esther Weltevrede and Johan Lindquist
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November 25, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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This book is about labor, consumption, and life in platform capitalism – for all of us who inhabit the relation in-convenience. Convenience is an entry point into logistics, streaming media, data centers, sleep apps and much else.
November 26, 2024 at 10:14 PM