The politics of ‘platforms’

By Tarleton Gillespie. New Media & Society, 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook (2018, background): “…deploy the term “platform” to position themselves as neutral facilitators and to downplay their own agency: “platform” is “specific enough to mean something, and vague enough to work across multiple venues for multiple audiences” (Gillespie, 2010), such as developers, users, and advertisers.”
The Relevance of Algorithms (2013, background): “…várias audiências, às vezes de várias formas diferentes: um algoritmo pode ser defendido como uma ferramenta de avaliação imparcial para os críticos dos seus resultados e, ao mesmo tempo, ser prometido como uma ferramenta para a promoção seletiva e para anunciantes em potencial (GILLESPIE, 2010).”
WeBuildAI (2019, background): “…information, which influences the costs and benefits of their services for their users, news sources, advertisers, and the platforms themselves [39]; on-demand work platforms use algorithms to assign tasks, which affects their customers, their workers, and their own profits [41, 51, 72]; and…”
Like Trainer, Like Bot? Inheritance of Bias in Algorithmic Content Moderation (2017, background): “Online platforms, as ‘curators of public discourse’ [18] or digital extensions of the public sphere [12], have become important spaces for opinion and debate.”
Human-Centered Approaches to Fair and Responsible AI (2020, background): “Computational algorithms determine how information is distributed online [11], how organizations and work platforms assign and evaluate work and hire workers [22, 23], and how government programs allocate resources in cities and make judicial decisions [25].”
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology (2014, background): “In this line of reasoning, neither Twitter’s technological mediation by hashtags, retweets, algorithms, and protocols, nor its business model seems relevant (Gillespie 2010).”
Heuristics of the algorithm: Big Data, user interpretation and institutional translation (2015, background): “In its search for outliers and ‘black swans’ (Taleb, 2007/2010) – that is, that which is beyond expectations – one could therefore say that government surveillance works in reverse compared to market surveillance.”
The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready (2015, methodology): “In the computational sense, Gillespie (2010) defines a platform as an infrastructure to build applications on.”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “In this way, imagined affordance shares a theoretical affinity with the “politics of platforms” (Gillespie, 2010).”
Anxiety, panic and self-optimization (2018, background): “Indeed, the term ‘platform’ is often mobilized in tandem with emancipatory terminology, for example ‘empowering’ and ‘open’ (Gillespie, 2010: 357).”
Data Capitalism: Redefining the Logics of Surveillance and Privacy (2019, background): “The apparatus that makes up massive data collection is largely invisible: The algorithms that make sense of the data are challenging for outsiders to locate and parse through (Gillespie, 2010, 2014).”
The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity (2018, neutral): “Critically exploring these shifts is particularly important because the “platform” metaphor, as Gillespie (2010, 2017) argues, obfuscates as much as it reveals.”
Algorithmic Cultures : Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies (2016, background): “…those undertakings (McChesney 2015; Jenkins 2006; Havens, Lotz, and Tinic 2009), and how social media platforms increasingly play that role (Gillespie 2010; van Dijck 2013; Burgess and Green 2013, Vaidhyanathan; Sandvig 2015, Napoli 2015); the dynamics of cultural production that shape…”
Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems (2015, background): “…work to analyze the extent to which a viewer may be exposed to such content and thereby highlighting ‘‘Whether these interventions are strategic or incidental, harmful or benign, they are deliberate choices that end up shaping the contours of public discourse online’’ (Gillespie, 2010, p. 358).”
Curated Flows: A Framework for Mapping Media Exposure in the Digital Age (2016, methodology): “Curation by algorithm is only beginning to receive attention in popular media and from communication scholars (Gillespie, 2010, 2011; Pariser, 2011) as part of a broader interest in the role of online communication infrastructure in democratic processes (Hindman, 2009) .”