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Five Theses on the Gravity of Platforms
Date
2024-11
Author(s)
Aidinoff, Marc
Boczkowski, Pable
Cameron, Lindsey
Kapila, Kriti
Kelly, Ann
Krupar, Shiloh
Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan
Nakamura, Lisa
Nelson, Alondra
Nieborg, David
Sandvig, Christian
Ticona, Julia
Weigel, Moira
Wohl, Hannah
Ziewitz, Malte
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48706/0KXB-N725
Abstract
In 2023 and 2024, the PLATFORM group considered “the platform” on both conceptual and empirical registers. Platforms seem to assemble capabilities, users, and interests and thereby set new futures in motion. Platforms are architectures for action that enable and constrain social, cultural, economic, and political possibilities, and shape how we structure, represent, and experience the world. Platforms are socio-technical infrastructures that can coordinate, consolidate, extend, and empower the activities of individuals, communities, corporations, and other actors. The group explored the gravity of the platform across humanistic and social science perspectives, advancing five theses about they simultaneously attract and repulse social action.
Description
In 2023 and 2024, the PLATFORM group considered how “the platform” occupies both conceptual and empirical registers. Platforms seem to assemble capabilities, users, and interests and thereby set new futures in motion. Platforms are architectures for action that enable and constrain social, cultural, economic, and political possibilities, and shape how we structure, represent, and experience the world. Platforms are socio-technical infrastructures that can coordinate, consolidate, extend, and empower the activities of individuals, communities, corporations, and other actors. Members of the PLATFORM group explored the gravity of this form across humanistic and social science perspectives, advancing five theses about how platforms simultaneously attract and repulse social action.
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Aidinoff, M., Boczkowski P., Cameron L., Kapila K., Kelly A., Krupar, S., Llamas-Rodriguez, J., Nakamura, L., Nelson, A., Nieborg, D., Sandvig, C., Ticona, J., Weigel, M. Wohl, H., and Ziewitz, M. (2024). Five Theses on the Gravity of Platforms, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study. https://doi.org/10.48706/0KXB-N725
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