The Platform Lab

Our third Lab report on Platform Regulation is officially out! Through a number of case studies, we investigate both how governments are seeking to regulate platforms, and how platforms continue to regulate social and cultural life. Read it here: theplatformlab.com/platform-regul…

Any students at @concordia - I'll be teaching a course on Anime that is open to all students. FMST 398 - on anime media history. Anyone with an interest is welcome! Hoping to see many new and old faces!

Super excited to announce a new article out in the world - a collaboration with some amazing thinkers - @says_hatim @joekhalil @LinZhang9 and @rahul_mukh journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Apply to our Film & Moving Image Studies program! Come to Canada! (And please tell your students to do so if you're a prof like me). Here's Cael Keegan telling you why you should: youtu.be/juOFger80b0

This is a fantastic article on the Pokémon development process and roll out! Anyone curious about Pokémon's development in Japan and then the US should read this

New article! How PayPay really took off as an app payment method in Japan, and why the usual explanation for events like this - convenience - might be the wrong one. Cash is convenient! Also the infrastructures of payment (convenience stores) are crucial journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Platforms and the Moving Image book now out! Edited by Philipp Keidl and Jana Zündel, featuring the work of many amazing scholars, and mostly junior scholars, including work on Netflix, IMDb, KaraGarga, smart homes, Disney+, ALTBalaji, and much more - OA meson.press/books/platform…

Convenience stores are information processing systems. They are also ATMs, interfaces to marketplaces, and much more. This article tracks the different ways convenience stores precede and map platform histories in Asia.

Please share! I'm editing a special issue of International Labor and Working Class History on "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence" with Susannah Glickman (Stony Brook). Please submit an abstract for our issue if this is your topic! networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

🚨Japanese convenience stores are endlessly fascinating. They are also precursors to platforms in Asia as I show in this newly published article. I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Our third Lab report on Platform Regulation is officially out! Through a number of case studies, we investigate both how governments are seeking to regulate platforms, and how platforms continue to regulate social and cultural life. Read it here: theplatformlab.com/platform-regul…

Happening tomorrow! Join us for a discussion of the latest Platform Lab report on Regulation - both in short supply some places and not going away anytime soon elsewhere eventbrite.com/e/platform-lab…

Reminder! We're hosting an online event to celebrate the launch of our third Lab Report on the theme of Platform Regulation this Friday, 12pm EST. Read more and register here: platformlab.eventbrite.com

A lovely book launch for In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround at the Logistical City conference today. Many ppl missing (esp @gem_neves & @LizaCirolia & Orit Halpern- here but not in photo) & so grateful to the organizers. A joyful moment in the life of a book!

Join us on Thursday, February 13th, as we celebrate the launch Ishita Tiwary's Video Culture in India: The Analog Era and Joshua Neves & Marc Steinberg's In/ Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround.

Check out Platform Lab Coordinator @ColinJonMark's latest piece investigating the various forms of value driving Apple TV+ in @NRFTSJournal

Come study with us! Open to MA and PhD applications. Join our community of emerging film scholars and practitioners!

Montreal is a great city to be a graduate student! Check out some of our incredible students now in the field: @hannah_panpo @patbrodie337 @jqnsrp @J_Ristola @edo_dit @_vvnsag @PatrickBrianS Applications due: Feb 1 #grad" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">concordia.ca/finearts/cinem…

1/5 [NEWS]: Website is live. planetaryai.net Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective 1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.

Book announcement: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @gem_neves and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the meaning of convenience. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publicati…