Hi AoIR, Last May, we launched the Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/articles/PNS> journal, which hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world. We have already published 23 articles, and we are sharing them with you. From now on, we will share updates quarterly. We invite you to read these articles and check out our submission guidelines<https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/PNS>. Introducing Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241235492> Julie Chen, Niels van Doorn, Rafael Grohmann, Andrea Pollio, Cheryll Soriano Governing platforms and societies<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241255922> José van Dijck The political economy of digital platforms: Key directions<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241263071> * Devika Narayan * Rethinking algorithmic management in minor key: The case of housecleaning platform labour in Denmark<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241273468> * Konstantinos Floros Consolidating platforms<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241254457> * Brett Neilson Interpreting Apple’s visions: Examining the spatiality of the Apple Vision Pro<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241283913> * Tyler Blackman, Daniel Harley Researching under the platform gaze: Rethinking the challenges of platform governance research<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241283912> * Carolina Are ‘Walking on eggshells’: Exploring tensions and ambivalences in platformised feminist practices on Instagram<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241284499> * Sofia P Caldeira A fit-for-purpose platform research agenda for a broken world<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241263951> * Cecilia Rikap Understanding the “platform” keyword: An inquiry on the contested use of metaphors in platform studies<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241285294> * Gianmarco Cristofari The new conglomerates<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241255309> * Nick Srnicek Platform studies and the finance-technology nexus: For a “genetic” approach<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241286779> * Edemilson Paraná Paraplatforms<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241275069> * Marc Steinberg The platformization of the follower factory: Para-platforms, automation, and labor in the market for social media engagements<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241297751> * Esther Weltevrede, Johan Lindquist Parasocial media: The mass production of intimacy on a Chinese pop idol mobile application<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241299954> * Xinyue Shen, Blake Hallinan Unpacking the business model: Food delivery platforms as ‘multiple market makers’<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241298782> * Julieta Haidar The politics of policy change in platform capitalism: A systematic review of the literature on the regulation of Transportation Network Companies (TNCs)<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241304599> * Ronald Sáenz-Leandro, * Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol Scenes of life's work: Migrant platform workers’ struggles over social reproduction in the context of welfare state bordering in Finland<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241307017> * Olivia Maur Things not quite going to plan: The actually existing platformization of the home care sector in Aotearoa New Zealand<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241303717> * Lisa Vonk, Leon A. Salter A social media professor, mediated: Being subject, object, and spectator in #BamaRush TikTok<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241306051> * Jessica Maddox Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241303109> * Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs Multichannel networks in China's livestreaming industry: Failing industrial lore and limited intermediary roles amidst platformization<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624251317147> * Zhen Ye Disciplined autonomy: A failed platform-cooperativism initiative in Brazil<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/29768624241307318> * Walmir Estima, André Lemos best, Rafael Grohmann (on behalf of the editorial collective) -- 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/> 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow, Queer and Trans Research Lab, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto<https://sds.utoronto.ca/qtrl-cohort-2024-25/>