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....

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/...

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!

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

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/...

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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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)

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

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...

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/...

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!

📘 “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!

👉 Read full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#values #safety

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:

upittpress.org/series/power...

🚨 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

@oiioxford.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social

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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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.