Pleased to announce that the #AOIR2016 special issue of Information, Communication & Society is now live: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/20/6 Contents include: Platform values: an introduction to the #AoIR16 special issue Koen Leurs & Michael Zimmer A river by any other name: Ganga/Ganges and the postcolonial politics of knowledge on Wikipedia Sangeet Kumar Making sense? The structure and meanings of digital memetic nonsense Yuval Katz & Limor Shipman Gender and self-enterprise in the social media age: a digital double bind Brooke Erin Duffy & Urszula Pruchniewska Neoliberal gremlins? How a scheme to help disadvantaged young people thrive online fell short of its ambitions Huw C. Davies, Rebecca Eynon & Sarah Wilkin The dark side of online participation: exploring non-, passive and negative participation Christoph Lutz & Christian Pieter Hoffmann Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the ‘on-demand’ economy Niels van Doorn Analytics in action: users and predictive data in the neonatal intensive care unit Claire Maiers Platformed racism: the mediation and circulation of an Australian race-based controversy on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández Many thanks to our reviewers, and to the organizers of #AOIR2016! Michael (and Koen) -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu> t: @michaelzimmer w: www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org>