The Platform Lab

@Concordia lab for research on the cultural & economic impact of platforms on media.

[The Platform Lab @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:
https://t.co/yn6ppMgHK6

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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!

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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.

[Aaron Benanav @abenanav]

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

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

🚨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

[The Platform Lab @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:
https://t.co/yn6ppMgHK6

[The Platform Lab @platform_lab]

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

[The Platform Lab @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: https://t.co/tgzUg7ToDo

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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!

[Raah Lab @Raah_Lab]

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.

[The Platform Lab @platform_lab]

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

[Colin @ColinJonMark]

Very happy my piece on Apple TV+ is out in the latest issue of @NRFTSJournal ! https://t.co/DUskrtZhlm

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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

[Joshua Neves @gem_neves]

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

[M. Amir @ibalilebali]

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.

[Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg]

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