Super Apps — The Platform Lab

The Super Apps Project aims to describe and analyze apps that seek to control a market by offering a large suite of services, from social media to online payments and marketplaces, to become essential everyday intermediaries.

A Lab Report on Super Apps is available now!

Recently Published Research:

(2022) Special Issue of Media, Culture & Society co-edited by Marc Steinberg, Rahul Mukherjee & Aswin Punathambekar. “Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps.” Available here.

Steinberg, Marc. (2020). LINE as Super App: Platformization in East Asia. Social Media + Society. 6. Available on ResearchGate here.