Dear AoIR members, We are pleased to announce the launch of an open-access journal – *Platforms & Society *edited by a collective composed of by Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, Andrea Pollio, Cheryll Soriano, and Niels van Doorn. With an international editorial board, *Platforms & Society *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. Read our launch editorial here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29768624241235492 The journal welcomes intersectional, cross-disciplinary, and geographically diverse perspectives on platformization and the dynamic relationship between platforms and societies. We are open to diverse formats of submission: Traditional research articles, multi-media submissions, provocations and commentaries, and themed issue proposals. About the journal’s aims and scope https://journals.sagepub.com/aims-scope/PNS and the submission guidelines: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/PNS Inquiries are welcome to any of the editors or to pns.pra@sagepub.com We look forward to reading your submissions! Best, -julie _____________________________ Julie Yujie Chen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Toronto, Canada Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology (ICCIT) (Mississauga) | Faculty of Information (St. George) *Latest Publications [*Equal contributions]* - Chen, J. Y., & Sun, P. (2023). *Digital labour platforms and national employment policies in China : studying the case of food delivery platforms*. ILO. https://doi.org/10.54394/KHET8772 - Chen, J.Y., Delfanti, A., Phan, M. (2023). “Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism—Introduction <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fijoc.org%2Findex.php%2Fijoc%2Farticle%2Fview%2F17756%2F4209&data=05%7C01%7Cjulieyj.chen%40utoronto.ca%7C4b181b8b4c15468396ae08db6e8bde43%7C78aac2262f034b4d9037b46d56c55210%7C0%7C0%7C638225319220413325%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rw4rZVR9W5iN6z7IeogmWmormbAHi8jI0i54qq%2FA8QM%3D&reserved=0>.” Special Section in *International Journal of Communication *17: *3891–3898* - *Zhang, L. & Chen, J.Y. (2022). “A Regional and Historical Approach to Platform Capitalism: The Cases of Alibaba and Tencent.” *Media Culture **&* * Society* 44 (8):1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221127796 For a copy here <https://www.academia.edu/88753998/A_regional_and_historical_approach_to_platform_capitalism_The_cases_of_Alibaba_and_Tencent> ,