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:
https://t.co/yn6ppMgHK6
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
https://t.co/SCiWUzzprI
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:
https://t.co/BsD2nFwphv
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
https://t.co/5fjH5RwNMd
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
https://t.co/KApj4mY5Yj
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! https://t.co/jso6hohnjN
🚨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! 🚨
https://t.co/wCiAuxUblh
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:
https://t.co/yn6ppMgHK6
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
https://t.co/h77JdwZMjD
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: https://t.co/tgzUg7ToDo
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.
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
https://t.co/ECCXNtSwVe
1/5 [NEWS]: Website is live. https://t.co/JmgMCVkwDk
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!
https://t.co/4hSVSck6Cw