Platform capitalisms and platform cultures

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI:10.1177/13678779231223544

Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, Rahul Mukherjee

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Abstract

This article argues for a pluralization of the “platform capitalism” framework, suggesting we should think instead in terms of “platform capitalisms.” This pluralization opens the way to a better account of how platforms work in different geocultural contexts, with our focus being on China, India and Japan. The article first outlines several roles the state has taken on in mediating platform capitalisms. We then signal three main axes around which to consider the implications of platform capitalisms for cultural production: state–platform symbiosis; platform precarity; and the informal–formal relation in cultural production. This short provocation, we hope, will help foreground the crucial role of the state in platform capitalisms, such that the state–culture–capitalism nexus might be better acknowledged in research on platforms and cultural production now and into the future. This is particularly important as states themselves increasingly become platform operators.

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平台资本主义和平台文化

本文论证了 "平台资本主义 "框架的多元化，建议我们应从 "平台资本主义 "的角度来思考问题。这种多元化为更好地解释平台如何在不同的地理文化背景下发挥作用开辟了道路，我们的重点是中国、印度和日本。文章首先概述了国家在调解平台资本主义中扮演的几种角色。然后，我们提出了平台资本主义对文化生产的影响的三个主轴：国家-平台共生；平台不稳定性；文化生产中的非正式-正式关系。我们希望，这一简短的启发将有助于突出国家在平台资本主义中的关键作用，从而使国家-文化-资本主义的关系在现在和未来的平台与文化生产研究中得到更好的认可。这一点在国家本身日益成为平台运营商的情况下尤为重要。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.