📢This is finally out as part of @MCSjournal special issue "Media Power in Digital Asia". It was great fun to think & write about Tencent's route to dominance in the app economy from MyApp to WeChat. 🎩off 2 the team @gamespacenl & @tpoell & editors @msteinbrg@rahul_mukh@aswinp
Out in @SocialMedia_Soc: This is a thinking piece from years of researching on the political economy of internet & platforms. I argue in this paper, we need to pay more attention to how these socio-legal institutions make use of space to consolidate power. https://t.co/ufBqhs3bLm
Pleased to announce that Dr Lianrui Jia (@LRJIa) from @SocStudiesShef will be joining us for #CDTS24🗣️! Join the forum’s waiting list for the chance to hear her thoughts on power dynamics in digital platforms in the 2nd panel session🤳��: https://t.co/OcmmKWFhVN @sheffielduni https://t.co/pDkylvDNeX
✨👩💻I'm having a book launch this Wednesday, 16:00-17:00 UK time (GMT+1), for my book "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms and Tumblr"! The lovely @ysabelgerrard will be joining as a discussant. Pls register via Eventbrite https://t.co/4kKrd5y1Px
����️🌟🗣️🌟submissions are now open for #AoIR2024! join the community of internet researchers in Sheffield (Oct30-Nov2); this year's spotlight is✨INDUSTRY✨; scholars are invited to explore this theme through diverse lenses, as detailed👇🏿; submit by March 1 https://t.co/nzS4t7Us3l
We are pleased to announce the full programme for this year's conference, which will take place on 14-15 September at VUB in Brussels. Registration now open to the public; limited availability. https://t.co/Rz9PSDe7y4
ICYMI, one week to go before the deadline for abstract submissions to our #Asiascape: #Digital#Asia issue on #AI in the Asia Pacific. If you or your colleagues are working on what AI is doing to Asia and what Asia does with AI, check out the call (#CfP): https://t.co/OhwOJ3bWqu
CFP for the ‘Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award 2024’. Are you an early career researcher whose research focuses on the history of the Internet and/or the Web, and histories of digital cultures? More info here: https://t.co/K2XrGEBplX
This is from our w/ @gamespacenl book chapter titled "Analyzing Chinese Platform Power: Infrastructure, Finance, and Geopolitics" https://t.co/vt8LCPqu5E
If you are interested and do not have access, I'm happy to share a pre-print PDF #CIRC2023
Shame I won't be able to catch up w/ @LRJia at #CIRC2023 in person, but good to see her zoom presentation on the 'Geographies of the Financialized Chinese Platform Economy'. Particularly intriguing: how the platform economy is turning uncertainty into a monetizable resource.
📣 Registration for #CIRC2023 is officially open🎊
🗓July 12-14 2023
📍Chiang Mai, 🇹🇭Thailand & Online
View speakers, agenda, and register: https://t.co/ZLfVDErLI3