Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook

By Jeanette Plantin, C. Lagoze, Paul N. Edwards, Christian Sandvig. 2018

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Nathaniel Persily e Joshua A. Tucker (a cura di). Social Media and Democracy. The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (2021, background): “…with infrastructural properties (they are shared, widely accessible systems that are used by a wide range of actors for many different purposes) (Plantin et al. 2016), so far in ways primarily governed by inherited legal and regulatory frameworks and individual companies’ own sense of…”
Digital platforms for development: Foundations and research agenda (2021, background): “…of IT artefacts on this spectrum are on a continuum, for example platforms and infrastructures may share some common characteristics (Constantinides et al., 2018; Helmond et al., 2019; Plantin et al., 2018), platforms bring distinct characteristics that have unique implications for development.”
Platformisation (2019, background): “A broader field of software studies research has been developed in parallel by scholars who foregrounded platforms as (re-)programmable software systems that revolve around the systematic collection and processing of user data (Helmond, 2015; Langlois & Elmer, 2013; Plantin et al., 2018).”
The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity (2018, positive): “Collectively, these overlapping approaches emphasize the material, computational, and infrastructural dimension of platforms (Helmond, 2015; Montfort and Bogost, 2009; Plantin et al., 2018).”
The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “These various platforms have become both important infrastructures and inter-mediaries in society insofar as they are found everywhere, support other activities, connect different people for various reasons, and reside in the background of everyday life (Plantin et al. 2018; Richardson 2019).”
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform (2020, background): “Because social media function as profit-driven eco-systems, platforms often “bind pre-defined communicative acts,” such as naming effects on videos, “to an economic logic,” recognizing that user engagement is first needed to secure economic capital (Plantin et al., 2018: 297).”
WeChat as infrastructure: the techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms (2019, background): “Moreover, by showing that WeChat now combines the properties of platforms and infrastructure (Plantin et al., 2018), we both challenge and contribute to the debates on the issues of platform expansion, regulation, and social consequences, which are current in the Euro-American public discourse.”
The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps (2018, background): “However, the “infrastructuralization of platforms” (Plantin et al., 2016, p. 9) as they grow and interconnect means that apps can be examined using infrastructure studies techniques.”