Hi AoIR, As the year wraps up, check out the articles published by Platforms & Society in 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/pnsa/2 And consider submitting your article in 2026! Platforms & Society Volume 2, January-December 2025 Table of Contents Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs Multichannel networks in China's livestreaming industry: Failing industrial lore and limited intermediary roles amidst platformization Zhen Ye Disciplined autonomy: A failed platform-cooperativism initiative in Brazil Walmir Estima, André Lemos Online moving of Chinese boys’ love fans: A platform ecology perspective Lin Zhang State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft's data centres in Greece 2.0 Charis Papaevangelou, Eugenia Siapera Platform imperialism and disinformation in Aotearoa-New Zealand Olivier Jutel, Leon A. Salter Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis Batoul Al Mehdar, Sharon Geeling, Nagla Rizk, Funda Ustek Spilda, Eisha Afifi, Joseph Budu, Pitso Tsibolane, Richard Boateng, Hilda Mwakatumbula, Mark Graham, Richard Heeks Navigating labour's labyrinth: Developing a typology of platform work in Sub-Saharan Africa Adio-Adet Tichafara Dinika Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr – How a tech company is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates Maja-Lee Voigt ‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety Paloma Viejo Otero, Rebecca Scharlach ‘Eyo, mixed girl check’: The commodification of embodied performance in the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok Ana-Nzinga Weiß, Florian Primig, Hanna Dorottya Szabó Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised multi-level marketing scheme Jacob Ørmen, Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Linea Munk Petersen The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones Tom Divon, Moa Eriksson Krutrök Prodexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan Injustice by design: A critical technocultural discourse and Latina feminist analysis of Amazon's ACX audiobook labor platform Ruth L. Nuñez Labour super-exploitation in differential uberisation: A Latin American perspective on the platform economy Federico De Stavola Platforms and the governmentality of political consumerism: A critical analysis of review bombing and de/politicization on Steam Andrew Wirzburger The Amazonification of Royal Mail and postal worker identity Jess Brand, Lina Dencik Intermediation of lending: Platforms, mobile money, and data transactions in India Rahul Mukherjee
From platform governance to institutional practice: Experimentation, misalignment, and contingent adoption of Google Arts & Culture T. Leo Cao
Surveil to protect and surveil to punish: Strategies to tackle sexual exploitation between national law and global corporate policies Carmela Morgillo, Salomé Lannier The incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan Marc Steinberg Data interoperability and the governance of public value Linda Huber Value through contribution systems Ellie Rennie Value from data? A decentralized approach Kelsie Nabben Comparing TikTok and Instagram's sociotechnical environments for cultural production Alex Turvy Golden shares in Chinese platforms: The state as news licensor and minority shareholder Angela Xiao Wu Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor Nicholas Proferes, Kelley Cotter, Kjerstin Thorson, Ankolika De, Chia-Fang Chang, Ava Francesca Battocchio Sex work as cross-platform self-branding. Challenges and strategies of OnlyFans’ content creators in a precarious ecosystem Margherita Di Cicco, Davide Beraldo A systemic framework for disinformation on social media platforms Raquel Recuero Algorithmic pedagogy: How Douyin constructs algorithmic imaginaries for content creators Meng Liang, Linqi Ye The politics of value: Platform economies in the ecological transition Franziska Cooiman Data or content? The conceptual battles defining dataset markets Jake Goldenfein Toward a platform–labor–territory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes Jae-Young Elisabeth Lee Worker power in self-organised networks: Algorithmic management, solidarity and resistance on platforms Mohammad Amir Anwar Value from digital twins Mark Andrejevic, Zoe Elena Horn, Michael Richardson Synthetic imaginaries of “sensitive” AI: On ambient amplification and jail(break)ing as method Elena Pilipets, Marloes Geboers Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg Sociotechnical enveloping: Productization of APIs and the transnational expansion of Alipay+ Jing Wang “Why can’t I just be fat and exist on the internet?”: The embeddedness of antifatness on TikTok Kelley Cotter, Rebecca Jonas, Ankolika De Coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Facebook? A typology of manufactured attention Richard Rogers, Nicola Righett Digital platform economies: Value from data? Janet Roitman, Andrew Moon, Leila Lin Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse Mervi Pantti, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Elis Karell How do multi-modal large language models understand non-English visual hate? Insights from studying hate speech in Chinese-speaking communities on Instagram Jing Zeng, Qinghao Guan, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Xiran Liu Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as cultural negotiations of platform governance CJ Reynolds A conversation on housing under platform capitalism: The contentious regulation of short-term rentals in European cities Emanuele Sciuva, Mara Ferreri, Gianluca Bei, Francesca Artioli, Thomas Aguilera, Claire Colomb
From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance Paddy Leerssen
States and platform capitalisms: A conversation Hatim El-Hibri, Joe F. Khalil, Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, Rahul Mukherjee Redefining social media influencership through followership building Muhammed Tobiloba Alakitan Adaptive governance: How digital platforms change their design Daniëlle Flonk Kevin Garvey Platformized labour and harassment in Canada: Quantifying the effects of racism on content creators Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra Music streaming platforms and everyday musical lives: Dynamics of community, individualisation and personalisation in China David Hesmondhalgh, Shuwen Qu Regulating AI in the workplace: A critique of the EU AI act and the platform work directive through a worker-centred lens Alexandros Minotakis Digital rhythmanalysis: Studying memetic and affective rhythms on the post-viral Web Sal Hagen, Daniël de Zeeuw, Tommaso Venturini The vortex of visibility: Platformization and literary practices in an emerging economy Rosie Nguyen The Salesforce of safety: Software vendors as infrastructural/professional nodes in the field of online trust and safety Lucas Wright Ghost infrastructure: The political economy of abandoned submarine data cable projects Sofie Flensburg, Signe Sophus La Infrastructural platforms as producers of incremental innovation: Investigating software development in Amazon's Alexa Prize Competition Niklas Strüver Seeing (like) a platform: Using data rights for participatory study of platforms Ana Pop Stefanija, Jo Pierson Symbolic surplus: How recruitment strategies form workers’ social composition and protest in food delivery gig work Heiner Heiland The editors Julie Yujie Chen Rafael Grohmann Andrea Pollio Cheryll Soriano Niels van Doorn -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/> University of Toronto Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/> Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/> Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS> Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/> Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/> Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work> Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/> <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>