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Poland as Gilead. Pop culture fiction and performative protests in the era of the pandemic 波兰是基列。流行病时代的流行文化、小说和表演抗议

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2023-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/01634437231179350

P. Żukiewicz, Denis Gerlich

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Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times. 存在流动性与亲密5.0之间:大流行时期的跨地区护理。

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/01634437221119295

Earvin Charles B Cabalquinto, Monika Büscher

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Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps. 数字亚洲的媒体力量：超级应用程序和巨型企业。

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Epub Date: 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.1177/01634437221127805

Marc Steinberg, Rahul Mukherjee, Aswin Punathambekar

引用次数: 0

More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack 不仅仅是性犯罪:2014年iCloud黑客事件的女权主义政治经济学

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2021-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/01634437211022713

Stephanie Patrick

引用次数: 3

Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia 超越平台资本主义:美拉尼西亚对Facebook市场的批判观点

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2021-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/01634437211022714

Geoffrey Hobbis, S. Hobbis

{"title":"Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia","authors":"Geoffrey Hobbis, S. Hobbis","doi":"10.1177/01634437211022714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211022714","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues for a need to move beyond studies of platform capitalism and inter-capitalist struggles to also account for inter-economic struggles, the platformization of longstanding primarily non-capitalist societies, the same kind of societies that have conceptually inspired discussions of platforms as hi-tech gift economies. Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork on digital transformations among the horticulturalist Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands, we analyse horticulturalist adoptions and adaptations of Facebook. Specifically, we consider how informal bush markets are being digitized through online Buy and Sell groups. We show how Solomon Islanders use Buy and Sell Facebook groups to continue moral economic practices that emphasize the accumulation of wealth not in a capitalist, but in a relational sense, where economic activity primarily serves the creation and affirmation of relationships. Our findings, thus, challenge universalizing claims about the nature of platforms as one that is necessarily about the commodification, in a capitalist sense, of all social relations. Simultaneously, they call for more research on experiences of platformization at the margins of global capitalism and the ways in which not-so-average users are making platforms their own.","PeriodicalId":74138,"journal":{"name":"Media, culture, and society","volume":"235 1","pages":"121 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77478005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection 数字断开的限制和边界

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/0163443720922054

Emiliano Treré, Simone Natale, Emily Keightley, Aswin Punathambekar

引用次数: 26

Chinese affective platform economies: dating, live streaming, and performative labor on Blued. 中国情感平台经济:Blued上的约会、直播和表演劳动。

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Epub Date: 2019-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/0163443719867283

Shuaishuai Wang

{"title":"Chinese affective platform economies: dating, live streaming, and performative labor on Blued.","authors":"Shuaishuai Wang","doi":"10.1177/0163443719867283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719867283","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the political economy of sexually affective data on the Chinese gay dating platform Blued. Having launched in 2012 as a location-based dating app akin to Grindr, Blued has now become a multipurpose platform providing extra services such as newsfeeds and live streaming. Through the continuous imbrication of old and new functionalities and related affordances, users are transformed from dating subjects into performative laborers. Based on Internet ethnographic research that lasted 2 years, this article focuses on sexual-affective data flows (e.g. virtual gifting, following, liking, commenting, and sharing) produced by gay live streamers within the parameters of same-sex desires such as infatuation, sexual arousal, and online intimacy. It argues that these sexually affective data flows increasingly constitute key corporate assets with which Blued attracts venture capital. This analysis of live streamers and their viewers extends understandings of dating apps in two ways. First, it shows how these apps now function as business platforms on top of being channels for hooking up. Second, it emphasizes that whereas users created data freely, now it is produced by paid labor.","PeriodicalId":74138,"journal":{"name":"Media, culture, and society","volume":"42 4","pages":"502-520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0163443719867283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38054193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 53

The political economy of Facebook's platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook Messenger as a platform instance. 移动生态系统中Facebook平台化的政治经济学:以Facebook Messenger为例。

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Epub Date: 2018-12-17 DOI: 10.1177/0163443718818384

David B Nieborg, Anne Helmond

{"title":"The political economy of Facebook's platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook Messenger as a platform instance.","authors":"David B Nieborg, Anne Helmond","doi":"10.1177/0163443718818384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718818384","url":null,"abstract":"Facebook's usage has reached a point that the platform's infrastructural ambitions are to be taken very seriously. To understand the company's evolution in the age of mobile media, we critically engage with the political economy of platformization. This article puts forward a conceptual framework and methodological apparatus to study Facebook's economic growth and expanding platform boundaries in the mobile ecosystem through an analysis of the Facebook Messenger app. Through financial and institutional analysis, we examine Messenger's business dimension and draw on platform studies and information systems research to survey its technical dimension. By retracing how Facebook, through Messenger, operationalizes platform power, this article attempts to bridge the gap between these various disciplines by demonstrating how platforms emerge and how their apps may evolve into platforms of their own, thereby gaining infrastructural properties. It is argued that Messenger functions as a 'platform instance' that facilitates transactions with a wide range of institutions within the boundaries of the app and far beyond.","PeriodicalId":74138,"journal":{"name":"Media, culture, and society","volume":"41 2","pages":"196-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0163443718818384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37069261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 124

How television moved a nation: media, change and Indigenous rights. 电视如何推动一个国家:媒体、变革和土著权利。

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Epub Date: 2018-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/0163443718754650

Lisa Waller, Kerry McCallum

{"title":"How television moved a nation: media, change and Indigenous rights.","authors":"Lisa Waller, Kerry McCallum","doi":"10.1177/0163443718754650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718754650","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the role of television in Australia's 1967 referendum, which is widely believed to have given rights to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents an analysis of archival television footage to identify five stories that moved the nation: Australia's shame, civil rights and global connections, admirable activists, 'a fair go' and consensus. It argues that television shaped the wider culture and opened a channel of communication that allowed Indigenous activists and everyday people to speak directly to non-Indigenous people and other First Nations people throughout the land for the first time. The referendum narrative that television did so much to craft and promote marks the shift from an older form of settler nationalism that simply excluded Indigenous people, to an ongoing project that seeks to recognise, respect and 'reaccredit' the nation-state through incorporation of Indigenous narratives. We conclude that whereas television is understood to have 'united' the nation in 1967, 50 years later seismic shifts in media and society have made the quest for further constitutional reform on Indigenous rights and recognition more sophisticated, diffuse, complex and challenging.","PeriodicalId":74138,"journal":{"name":"Media, culture, and society","volume":"40 7","pages":"992-1007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0163443718754650","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36535847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Nothing personal: algorithmic individuation on music streaming platforms. 不是针对个人的:音乐流媒体平台上的算法个性化。

Media, culture, and society Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Epub Date: 2017-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/0163443717745147

Robert Prey

引用次数: 119