Platform Capitalisms with Adrian Athique and Lin Zhang (May 3, 2023)
Join the Platform Lab for a conversation around “Platform Capitalisms” with two of the most significant voices in platform studies, Lin Zhang and Adrian Athique, to discuss their latest research on platform capitalism(s) from non-Western perspectives, expanding our existing frameworks for platform analysis.
Platforms and Cultural Production Author Roundtable (March 30, 2023)
Join The Platform Lab for a stirring virtual discussion with the esteemed authors of the celebrated book Platforms and Cultural Production (2021, Polity Press)!
Brooke Erin Duffy, David B. Nieborg, and Thomas Poell will join us to share how the book came together, their primary arguments, and how platform-based cultural production continues to change.
For more on the book, go here.
The 2021-22 GEM Seminar is organized around the problem of In/Convenience and is co-organized by the Platform Lab.
More info here.
Join us for a special event with Jathan Sadowski, senior research fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University and author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World, for a discussion on digital platforms as rentiers.
Join us for a talk by Dr. Seyram Avle, Assistant Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on the subject of Chinese Smartphones in Africa: Hardware, Data, and Transnational Business Infrastructures in the Platform Era.
a tumblr book Roundtable with editors Allison McCracken (DePaul), Alexander Cho (UC Santa Barbara), Louisa Stein (Middlebury) & Indira Neill Hoch (Concordia College)(April 23, 2021)
Join us for an exciting roundtable discussion with the co-editors of a tumblr book: platform and cultures! Hosted by The Platform Lab and moderated by Jake Pitre (Concordia), this discussion will focus on the context of the book, the editorial process, and the fascinating platform that is Tumblr.
This event celebrates the publication of Everyday Movies with a discussion between the author Prof. Haidee Wasson, Prof. Marsha Gordon (North Carolina State University) and Prof. Rick Prelinger (UC Santa Cruz).
SYMPOSIUM: Just-in-Time Platforms (Nov. 9, 2020)
Join Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic and Dr. Julie Yujie Chen, two scholars whose research offers close studies of just-in-time platforms, management, and labour. With Dr. Melissa Gregg as respondent and Lab Director Marc Steinberg as moderator.