Petr Szczepanik
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Petr Szczepanik
@petrszczepanik.bsky.social
Media industries in East Central Europe | streaming platforms | production studies | Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Prague
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Ve Vlně si povídáme se @sarahxabulkasim.bsky.social o naší studii Playlisting the Periphery, kde se s Petrem Szczepanikem zaměřujeme na nerovnosti mezi centry a periferiemi v platformní geografii Spotify.

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Globální playlisty nejsou pro všechny. Pro Spotify jsme pořád periferie, říká studie
Globální streamovací služba Spotify se prezentuje jako platforma, kde má každý umělec nebo umělkyně stejnou šanci oslovit publikum bez ohledu na to, odkud pochází. Realita ale vypadá jinak. Hudba ze s...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
1/6 New article on how Spotify engages with East-Central Europe (ECE) and how platformization reinforces global inequalities. Based on the political economy of platforms and interviews with local "platform intermediaries" navigating algorithmic and geographic peripherality.
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Playlisting the periphery: Platform intermediaries and East-Central European music visibility in Spotify’s geography - Miloš Hroch, Petr Szczepanik, 2025
This article examines Spotify’s engagement with East-Central European (ECE) music markets, exploring how platformization intersects with peripherality. Using in...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
1/5🎥🏭When platform capitalism meets local labor: A Prague perspective on global streaming production.

My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇

#StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.
March 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reposted by Petr Szczepanik
Pleased to announce that the SSHRC-supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project released two new reports today. one on media ownership & concentration in the United States, 1984-2023 & a 2nd on the Czech Republic covering 2019-2022. gmicp.org/media-owners... gmicp.org/communicatio... 1/
Media ownership and concentration in the United States of America, 1984-2023
A report produced by the American research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project This report analyzes media concentration in the U.S. over the past 40 years, highlighting the shift ...
gmicp.org
February 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM