For two decades, "social media" meant a specific setup: users produced content, content circulated through social ties, platforms extracted value from mediating this.
Networked publics, digital trace data, platformization — a generation of research rested on that configuration.
Networked publics, digital trace data, platformization — a generation of research rested on that configuration.
April 23, 2026 at 1:34 PM
For two decades, "social media" meant a specific setup: users produced content, content circulated through social ties, platforms extracted value from mediating this.
Networked publics, digital trace data, platformization — a generation of research rested on that configuration.
Networked publics, digital trace data, platformization — a generation of research rested on that configuration.
Maybe another way to say it: for me, there have been two big phases of the Internet. Phase 1 was the Everyone Has a Website and Nobody Knows What They're Doing phase. Phase 2 was platformization and the siloing of the Internet. Maybe Phase 3 is The Internet is for Robots.
September 20, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Maybe another way to say it: for me, there have been two big phases of the Internet. Phase 1 was the Everyone Has a Website and Nobody Knows What They're Doing phase. Phase 2 was platformization and the siloing of the Internet. Maybe Phase 3 is The Internet is for Robots.
The corporate platformization of the internet makes it an uncomfortable place for both children and adults. We separate these 2 states for a reason, but online platforms yearn to smash them together and infantilizes adults and risks children to try to resolve this contradiction
September 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The corporate platformization of the internet makes it an uncomfortable place for both children and adults. We separate these 2 states for a reason, but online platforms yearn to smash them together and infantilizes adults and risks children to try to resolve this contradiction
Very pleased to receive my copy of this new, important volume, in which I offer a brief history of musical platformization in Kenya.
Oh and this book is *open access*! Starting next week you can download a free copy from Luminos — luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1...
Oh and this book is *open access*! Starting next week you can download a free copy from Luminos — luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1...
October 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Very pleased to receive my copy of this new, important volume, in which I offer a brief history of musical platformization in Kenya.
Oh and this book is *open access*! Starting next week you can download a free copy from Luminos — luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1...
Oh and this book is *open access*! Starting next week you can download a free copy from Luminos — luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1...
Now, of course, platformization means this happens everywhere and from anywhere all the time.
I assume that itch was threatened with immediate end of service and panic responded, but I do think this is downstream from Steam caving. Valve is impossibly huge and could stand up to the processors.
I assume that itch was threatened with immediate end of service and panic responded, but I do think this is downstream from Steam caving. Valve is impossibly huge and could stand up to the processors.
July 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Now, of course, platformization means this happens everywhere and from anywhere all the time.
I assume that itch was threatened with immediate end of service and panic responded, but I do think this is downstream from Steam caving. Valve is impossibly huge and could stand up to the processors.
I assume that itch was threatened with immediate end of service and panic responded, but I do think this is downstream from Steam caving. Valve is impossibly huge and could stand up to the processors.
Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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April 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts: SAVE THE DATE for April 10!
Together with @wikimediade.bsky.social we invite you to join the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" in #Berlin.
More details soon!
Together with @wikimediade.bsky.social we invite you to join the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" in #Berlin.
More details soon!
January 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts: SAVE THE DATE for April 10!
Together with @wikimediade.bsky.social we invite you to join the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" in #Berlin.
More details soon!
Together with @wikimediade.bsky.social we invite you to join the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" in #Berlin.
More details soon!
📢 Come to our book launch: The Platformization of the Family
As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships?
🗓 Monday 20 Jan
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online
Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english...
Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships?
🗓 Monday 20 Jan
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online
Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english...
Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Platformization of the Family: Digital Book Launch
- Department of Education
Increasingly, digital platforms are woven into the fabric of family life. What does this weaving look like, and how do we research it? Welcome to this digital launch of the book «The Platformization o...
www.uv.uio.no
January 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
📢 Come to our book launch: The Platformization of the Family
As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships?
🗓 Monday 20 Jan
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online
Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english...
Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships?
🗓 Monday 20 Jan
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online
Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english...
Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
One thing I haven't seen talked about with AI is the way platformization has, by accident, paved the way for ai to replace more of us. Meaning, in response to algorithms, creators have already started to behave more like content machines, meaning their work hands off to AI more easily.
September 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
One thing I haven't seen talked about with AI is the way platformization has, by accident, paved the way for ai to replace more of us. Meaning, in response to algorithms, creators have already started to behave more like content machines, meaning their work hands off to AI more easily.
Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts! Join us and @wikimediade.bsky.social at the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons," April 10 in #Berlin.
Details and Registration ➡️ https://buff.ly/41vueAT
#AcademicSky
Details and Registration ➡️ https://buff.ly/41vueAT
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February 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts! Join us and @wikimediade.bsky.social at the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons," April 10 in #Berlin.
Details and Registration ➡️ https://buff.ly/41vueAT
#AcademicSky
Details and Registration ➡️ https://buff.ly/41vueAT
#AcademicSky
Excited to share "The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric." Took some big swings, leaned on community, + embraced my POV. Check it out for theoretical provocations + anticipations re: platformization + digital rhetoric.
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric
Digital rhetoric is in a “paradigmatic aftermath” from Big Tech platformization. The implicit paradigm for digital rhetoric is the ecological model, but platformization has revealed how fragile eco...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Excited to share "The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric." Took some big swings, leaned on community, + embraced my POV. Check it out for theoretical provocations + anticipations re: platformization + digital rhetoric.
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gotta say: it takes a white guy emeritus prof from Yale to proclaim that faculty life hasn't changed in 40 years — amidst adjunctification, platformization, public funding cuts, the substitution of tech for competent support staff, the disappearance of those jobs *my* senior advisors enjoyed...
Opinion | Why Professors Fear the Future
Academic life has barely changed in 40 years. Why? The faculty likes it that way.
www.chronicle.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Gotta say: it takes a white guy emeritus prof from Yale to proclaim that faculty life hasn't changed in 40 years — amidst adjunctification, platformization, public funding cuts, the substitution of tech for competent support staff, the disappearance of those jobs *my* senior advisors enjoyed...
"The decision comes after several parents and teachers expressed concern about AI."
Here’s to more parents and teachers building coalitions against GenAI and the platformization of education.
Here’s to more parents and teachers building coalitions against GenAI and the platformization of education.
“Another speaker was more emphatic, telling the board, ‘Yes, pause AI. In fact, get rid of it.’”
Broward School Board pauses rollout of AI platform for educators amid privacy and security concerns
The board agreed to resume discussions in July, when they will review a report on whether all necessary artificial intelligence safeguards are in place.
www.cbsnews.com
June 24, 2026 at 3:19 AM
"The decision comes after several parents and teachers expressed concern about AI."
Here’s to more parents and teachers building coalitions against GenAI and the platformization of education.
Here’s to more parents and teachers building coalitions against GenAI and the platformization of education.
Platformization. College registrar here and man, do I ever feel this. 🎯
May 8, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Platformization. College registrar here and man, do I ever feel this. 🎯
In open education spaces there is a lot of discussion around the dangers of "platformization" and how decision-making around education is often offloaded to edtech companies and publishers at the detriment to both educators and learners.
May 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
In open education spaces there is a lot of discussion around the dangers of "platformization" and how decision-making around education is often offloaded to edtech companies and publishers at the detriment to both educators and learners.
AI may be an accelerant, but the real problem is platformization. You might enjoy Tim Wu's book, Age of Extraction.
August 22, 2026 at 2:10 PM
AI may be an accelerant, but the real problem is platformization. You might enjoy Tim Wu's book, Age of Extraction.
Is the academic ick a thing? Because “platformization” and “datafication” 😬
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Is the academic ick a thing? Because “platformization” and “datafication” 😬
New article — the first from an ongoing project that explores how anchoring edtech development in teachers' professional knowledge might support the design of technologies that resist the extractive and deskilling tendencies of platformization in education.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization
Early accounts of educational platforms celebrated their potential to revolutionize professional learning through ‘participatory culture,’ enabling teachers to share resources, gain knowledge from ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
New article — the first from an ongoing project that explores how anchoring edtech development in teachers' professional knowledge might support the design of technologies that resist the extractive and deskilling tendencies of platformization in education.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now officially in print: "From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan Conventions and Digital Platforms" by Felan Parker, Benjamin Woo, and myself: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (open access!).
An analysis of virtual cons in '20/'21 as extension of platformization-in-progress rather than radical rupture.
An analysis of virtual cons in '20/'21 as extension of platformization-in-progress rather than radical rupture.
November 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Now officially in print: "From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan Conventions and Digital Platforms" by Felan Parker, Benjamin Woo, and myself: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (open access!).
An analysis of virtual cons in '20/'21 as extension of platformization-in-progress rather than radical rupture.
An analysis of virtual cons in '20/'21 as extension of platformization-in-progress rather than radical rupture.
And in that climate it was easier to be hopeful. But then the power of network control and platformization got discovered and, alas.
August 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
And in that climate it was easier to be hopeful. But then the power of network control and platformization got discovered and, alas.
The datafication and financialization of housing has led to the phenomenon of housing platformization, say Alexandre Petticlerc and David Eliot. That's bad for people who need homes: www.techpolicy.press/the-noxious-...
The Noxious Datafication of the Housing Market | TechPolicy.Press
The datafication and financialization of housing has led to the phenomenon of housing platformization, say Alexandre Petticlerc and David Eliot.
www.techpolicy.press
June 29, 2024 at 11:47 PM
The datafication and financialization of housing has led to the phenomenon of housing platformization, say Alexandre Petticlerc and David Eliot. That's bad for people who need homes: www.techpolicy.press/the-noxious-...
Call for Abstracts — "Software Libraries: Following the Infrastructures of Code" — exploring software libraries as sociotechnical objects, the political economy and platformization of libraries, libraries as epistemic and normative infrastructures, and creative and critical (re)appropriation!
CFPs & Events – Computational Culture
computationalculture.net
September 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Call for Abstracts — "Software Libraries: Following the Infrastructures of Code" — exploring software libraries as sociotechnical objects, the political economy and platformization of libraries, libraries as epistemic and normative infrastructures, and creative and critical (re)appropriation!
This finding honestly fits with how often you find MAGA Uber drivers:
March 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This finding honestly fits with how often you find MAGA Uber drivers:
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 25, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
So honored that our article “Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization,” co-authored with @philnichols.bsky.social, @quirosjulian.bsky.social, and @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social received the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association! Check it out open access!
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So honored that our article “Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization,” co-authored with @philnichols.bsky.social, @quirosjulian.bsky.social, and @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social received the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association! Check it out open access!