1st Edition
Platforms, Power, and Friction
Introduction: Platform frictions, platform power, and the politics of platformization
Pawel Popiel and Krishnan Vasudevan
1. Patrons of commerce: asymmetrical reciprocity and moral economies of platform power
Aaron Shapiro, Courtlyn Pippert, Jacob Kenton Smith and Zari A. Taylor
2. Competing digital capacities: between state-led digital governance and local data center tradeoffs
Lauren E. Bridges
3. Frictions and flows in Twitch’s platform economy: viewer spending, platform features and user behaviours
Nathan J. Jackson and Mark R. Johnson
4. Dreaming of seamless interfaces: media and friction from the feuilleton to personal computing
Simone Natale and Emiliano Treré
5. Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment
Mikko Laamanen and Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając
6. Smooth operator: sleuthing Homo oeconomicus on social media platforms through a close reading of design
Alexander Cho
7. The specter of global ByteDance: platforms, regulatory arbitrage, and politics
Luzhou Li
8. Dis//assemblages of AI: repair labor and resistance in the automated workplace Dominique
A. Montiel Valle and Samantha Shorey
Biography
Pawel Popiel is an Assistant Professor at the Murrow College for Communication, Washington State University. His work focuses on the political economy and regulation of digital media and emergent ICT technologies under platform capitalism.
Krishnan Vasudevan is an Associate Professor at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. His work critically examines capitalism through the study of design, labor, media and culture.
