https://www.theplatformlab.com/home daily 1.0 2025-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/eebd309f-9d9c-44ea-88c1-d9538217a98a/GRE82LTWQAAaVIA.jpg Home - New Article from Platform Lab Coordinator Colin Crawford on Protocol Power Check out Platform Lab Coordinator Colin Crawford’s new article Protocol power: Matter, IoT interoperability, and a critique of industry self-regulation in a recent special issue of the Internet Policy Review “Locating and Theorising Platform Power,” guest-edited by David Nieborg, Thomas Poell, Robyn Caplan, and Jose van Dijck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/f68d5375-bcbb-4c2d-a02c-0a05951b06d3/cjc.2022.47.issue-4.largecover.jpg Home - “ Listening to Others: Dubbing Global Media in Québec” Theo Stojanov, a friend of the Platform Lab, recently published this brilliant article in the Canadian Journal of Communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/b28bfec3-f22b-45bb-ba8c-d1893242a621/lin+zhang.png Home - Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, and Rahul Mukherjee on Platform Capitalisms Platform lab director Marc Steinberg begins 2024 with an article on “Platform capitalisms and platform cultures”, co-authoured with Lin Zhang and lab affiliate Rahul Murkherjee for the International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d4032af3-bb03-4ac2-ae09-7d70b4ee165e/1644936884279.jpeg Home - “Concordia lab releases report on the impact of platform wars on Japanese animation” Concordia news item on The Platform Lab’s “Anime Streaming Platform Wars” report and interview with the report’s editor & Lab coordinator Aurélie Petit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/47704f14-8ffe-4536-abf9-2338247d1e57/akiko.jpeg Home - Dr Akiko Sugawa-Shimada’s work on anime, manga and cultural studies explores the 2.5-dimensional Check out what Dr Akiko Sugawa-Shimada has published on anime, manga, fandom and cultural practices in 2023. Dr Sugawa-Shimada recent work focuses on the 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) culture, which she defines as performances that generate interrelations between the real, fictional, and cyber worlds. This includes theatrical performances of anime, manga, and games, cosplay, voice actor/character concerts, Vtubers, contents tourism, etc. Our Platform Lab’s Affiliate Faculty was guest editor of the Mechademia journal, which you will find here: Mechademia: Second Arc "2.5D Culture'' (Spring, 2023) She also published an article in the subsequent edition of Mechademia, edited by Platform Lab’s director Dr Marc Steinberg, which you will find here: “A 2.5D Approach to the Media Mix: The Potentialities of Fans’ Produsage” Mechademia: Second Arc "Media Mix" (Winter, 2023) Dr Sugawa-Shimada was also co editor of the book Cultural Approaches to Studio Ghibli Animation, published in 2022 in Japanese by 七月社. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/fb3288b5-bc86-4e33-8801-8645e7048510/jin_image2.png Home - Dal Yong Jin on Streaming and the Korean Wave in 2023 Platform Lab Affiliate Faculty member Dal Yon Jin is a leading scholar on the topic of the Korean Wave in critical industry studies of streaming, publishing a number of fantastic articles in 2023. Read Jin’s recent work on the relationships between Korean media industries, local, regional, and global streaming platforms, and the rising transnational popularity of Korean content in the links below. - “Critical Cultural Industries Studies: A New Approach to the Korean Wave in the Netflix Era.” International Journal of Communication (2023) - Platformization of the Korean Wave: a critical perspective.” Communication Research and Practice. (Jin, Yoon, & Han, 2023) - “Netflix’s Effects on the Korean Wave: power relations between local cultural industries and global OTT platforms.” (2023) - “Platformization of Korean Internet portals toward mega-platforms: A historical approach.” First Monday. (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/7e8723f0-e5ac-49aa-8967-bd72e52b67cd/In%3Aconvenience.jpg Home - New Open Access Collection In/Convenience, edited by Marc Steinberg & Joshua Neves “Convenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates our platformed present. As such, it poses urgent techno-political questions about the everyday digital habitus. From next-day delivery, gig work, and tele-health to cashless payment systems, data centers, and policing – convenience is an affordance and an enclosure; our logistical surround.” Emerging out of a media theory reading group and intimate conference held in 2022, this open access collection, edited by Platform Lab director Marc Steinberg and Global Emergent Media Lab director Joshua Neves, features a range of contributions on the theme of media in/conveniences, from convenience stores, to sleep apps, sex media, cloud infrastructures and “convenient-for-the-people” state surveillance. Read more, and order or download a copy from the publisher, The Institute of Network Cultures here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/14dc466a-69cc-4230-9207-4daeab3b2e60/wYoOq0sb.jpeg Home - Special Issue of Media, Culture & Society on Super Apps Co-edited by Lab Director Marc Steinberg with Rahul Mukherjee and Aswin Punathambekar, this special issue, “Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps,” looks at the conditions for the platforms & super apps in translocal Asia, offering a critical look at the megacorps behind it. Check out their introduction here, and the full issue here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/cc20c57a-2849-492a-ac78-7b73cfed46e7/Screen+Shot+2022-01-12+at+6.17.16+PM.png Home - Anime Streaming Platform Wars A Platform Lab Report edited by Aurélie Petit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d31c0433-06fd-40a2-98ff-2d12e8d02384/Screen+Shot+2022-09-28+at+2.18.10+PM.png Home - Super Apps A Platform Lab Report edited by Jake Pitre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/b22fd77b-ac93-42ff-9e4e-57bfacf5a103/Platform+Regulation_final.jpg Home - Platform Regulation A Platform Lab Report edited by Colin Crawford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/552144cf-7b6e-4bd9-9062-87e23e2ce06d/Poster.png Home - Join us for a publishing workshop and talk with UPenn’s Rahul Mukherjee, Nov 7th Workshop: 1:30-3:00pm, Global Emergent Media Lab, FB 630.15, 1250 Guy Street Talk: 4:00-5:30pm, Raah Lab, FB 630.17, 1250 Guy Street https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56098193e4b08650938b4d7b/1445961502828-KBHQV9SK2Q2NGV2D488N/pickles-blog-carrot-on-pink-square.JPG Home - 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Colin Jon Mark Crawford Colin is a PhD candidate at Concordia University whose research critically examines how and why Big Tech is moving into the culture industries of film and television. His work pays particular attention to the relationships between smartness, datafication, and financialization in media industries, infrastructures, and cultures. He is a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, and the authour of Netflix’s Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/66770e42-d0c5-4248-ab39-539803f058f8/s200_david.nieborg.jpg Members - David B. Nieborg David B. Nieborg is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, the Queensland University of Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David published on the game industry, apps and platform economics, and games journalism in academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, the European Journal for Cultural Studies, and Media, Culture and Society. He is the co-author of the forthcoming Platforms, Power, and Cultural Production (Polity, 2020) with Thomas Poell and Brooke Erin Duffy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/ad898986-20d8-457e-bc8c-d2e00ba4aab6/commjacqueline.png Members - Jacqueline Ristola Jacqueline Ristola is a Lecturer in Animation (Digital) in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montreal. Her research areas include animation/anime studies, media industry studies, and queer representation. Her work is published in Synoptique, Con a de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited a special issue on LGBTQ Animation for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, and has a chapter in the edited collection Representation in Steven Universe (Palgrave 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/86db40f7-c9c5-4884-91b8-2fc1bfd226e5/1692293311239+-+Aviva+Majerczyk.jpg Members - Aviva Majerczyk Aviva Majerczyk is an M.A. student in Media Studies at Concordia University in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal. Her M.A. research is focussed on the female incel community, "heteropessimism," and the affective qualities of TikTok sub-cultures. Her research asks: What do videos from the TikTok “Femcel” community tell us about how this ideology functions? What do these videos communicate about the issues of contemporary girlhood and why so many young people are attracted to this content? A writer and media-maker, Majerczyk also produces freelance cultural criticism and hosts a long-running radio show on CJLO 1690AM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/89767ed4-43b3-47d9-bc1a-9493632433b7/Screen+Shot+2023-11-21+at+5.37.24+PM.png Members - Sudipto Basu Sudipto Basu is a third year PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University. His ongoing research is about the entanglement of the Cold War-era discourses of population management with infrastructure projects and developmental experiments in the Global South, particularly India. He is a research associate on the Against Catastrophe project (PI: Prof. Orit Halpern), which is a part of the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded Governing Through Design research cluster. He has previously worked on the intersections of experimental cinema since the Cold War, cybernetics and the Anthropocene; post-war Bombay cinema’s political economy and the experimental turn in Films Division India. His written work has been published in APRJA, IIC Quarterly and Critical Collective, and a video essay he co-directed, Tracts of Dust (2018), has shown in Bangkok Biennial and Little Cinema International Festival, Kolkata, among other venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/342b48f6-77a9-4106-9175-476e72f39fe1/akiko+20210425.jpg Members - Akiko Sugawa-Shimada Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, PhD, is a professor in the Faculty of Urban Innovation at Yokohama National University, Japan. Dr. Sugawa-Shimada is the author of a number of books and articles on anime, manga, and Cultural Studies, including Girls and Magic: How Have Girl Heroes Been Accepted? (2013, Won the 2014 Japan Society of Animation Studies Award, in Japanese), 2.5-dimentional Culture: Stages, Characters, Fandom (2021, in Japanese), chapters in the books Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives (2013), Introduction to Anime Studies (2014, in Japanese, co-edited), Teaching Japanese Popular Culture (2016), Cultural Sociology of Post-kawaii (2017, in Japanese), Shojo Across Media (2019), Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond (2019), 55 Keywords for Animation Culture (2019, in Japanese, co-edited), Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom (2020), and Animating the Spiritual (2020), and as co-author, Contents Tourism in Japan (2017). Her website is: akikosugawa.2-d.jp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/db3b09ea-77e7-499a-b1f6-ced179cd98a0/Rob.JPG Members - Robert Hunt Robert Hunt is a PhD candidate in communication at Concordia University. Hunt received his MA in media studies from Concordia and BA in English from Emory University. His work has been published in Social Media + Society, the Journal of Information Policy, and the edited collection Affective Politics of Digital Media (Routledge, 2021). He is also the General Coordinator of the Concordia Research and Education Workers (CREW) union. Rob’s doctoral research investigates the unfolding relationship between artificial intelligence technologies and office work. Analyzing the human capital management software industry, the culture of data-driven management, and the scientific discourses that support both, Hunt explores how the contemporary office—whether a physical, sensor-rich space, a platformized network of remote workers, or a hybrid of both—functions as a laboratory for continuous and ubiquitous experimentation. His other research interests include: biometric, psychometric, and affective surveillance; content discoverability on cultural platforms; AI in digital advertising; datafication in the online attention economy; AI policy; and the political economy of the Canadian AI industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/9a51e268-7f75-4c8d-b208-a2193d4ba68a/Chen-Headshot+-+UoL.jpg Members - Julie Yujie Chen Julie Yujie Chen is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto (Mississauga) and holds a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Information (St. George). She studies the transformation of work and worker's life in relation to the digital technologies, capitalism, and globalization. She is the co-author of Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and the lead author of Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society (Emerald, 2018) which is the first book-length research on the largest social media in China—namely, WeChat. Chen publishes widely on issues related to digital labor and platform studies. Her work has appeared in journals including New Media & Society, Socio-Economic Review, Javnost - The Public, Work, Employment and Society, Chinese Journal of Communication, China Perspectives, and Triple C. A full list of her publications can be found at the Google Scholar page. Currently, she is working on a SSHRC-funded project to examine the relations between imaginary and application of data-driven artificial intelligence and the organization and value of human labor in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/f1a6a6e5-4205-449c-89cb-f64a3c4f2bbc/Arsel+picture.jpg Members - Zeynep Arsel Zeynep Arsel is Professor of Marketing and Concordia University Research Chair in Consumption, Markets, and Society. Her research interrogates the intersection of technology and markets and its sociocultural implications. She is working on an SSHRC-funded research program about how technology and platforms have shaped surveillance, work, service interactions, expertise, and experiences and expressions of people with disabilities across four interrelated projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634926078252-HF4085VO3KB048YPMO1I/unnamed.jpg Members - Orit Halpern Orit Halpern is Full Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard. She has held numerous visiting scholar positions including at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, IKKM Weimar, and at Duke University. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automation, intelligence, and freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering. She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, and governmentality. Her recent book with Robert Mitchell (2023) is titled the Smartness Mandate. The book is a genealogy of our current obsession with smart technologies and artificial intelligence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/8cd2dc04-fe00-4d21-93a5-3838227e1a05/TfSQ_Jwm_400x400.jpg Members - Yuriko Furuhata Yuriko Furuhata is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, an associate member of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and a faculty member of the World Cinemas Program at McGill University. She works in the areas of film and media theory, Japanese cinema and media studies, visual culture, and critical theory. She is the author of Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics and has published articles in journals such as Grey Room, Screen, and New Cinemas. She is currently completing a book, entitled Atmospheric Control: A Transpacific Genealogy of Climatic Media, exploring genealogically intertwined developments of weather control, networked computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States in the 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/aa55042d-fa86-4652-af25-551879fcb91f/RahulM.jpg Members - Rahul Mukherjee Rahul Mukherjee is the Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media and Director of the Cinema and Media Studies Program at University of Pennsylvania. His first book Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke University Press, March 2020) explores the ecological dimensions of media and energy infrastructures like cell towers and nuclear reactors. He has written widely in journals such as Media, Culture & Society and Asiascape: Digital Asia about mobile media uses, platform ecosystems, and the digital cultures of circulation, including piratical and informal distribution networks. Rahul is presently working on his second book Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (under review) and co-editing special issues about digital platforms, media power, and everyday life. He has been the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities (2017-18). Rahul serves on the advisory board of the journal Media+Environment and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/fc1bbd7a-42a2-4376-b23d-b7ba79ab0d95/369963285_6689353337790651_371345772432247912_n.jpg Members - Ananya Ananya is a PhD Student in the Film & Moving Image Studies Program. She has an MPhil in Women's Studies and a Master's in Film Studies from Jadavpur University. She is interested in autonomist theory, feminist science and technology studies, and media industry studies. Her current research focuses on the informatic labor that is congealed in the assembly of algorithmic recommender systems. She also studies how the gendered experience of time and space shapes the trajectories of India's creative and cognitive workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634925270899-DO91UGJGQ8S3PD9508UK/1597093304451.jpg Members - Ishita Tiwary Ishita Tiwary's research interests include video cultures, media infrastructures, migration, contraband media practices, and media aesthetics. She has published essays in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities, Culture Machine, MARG: Journal of Indian Art, and in edited collections on topics of media piracy, video histories, and streaming platforms. She is currently working on two projects. The first is her book monograph that traces the history of analog video cultures in India through an infrastructural lens. The second research project tracks the migration of pirated media objects and people from China to India via the Nepal border through bazaar spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634848720299-FO6ZCWRS9EO82OCHY68D/lFxRbLgj_400x400.png Members - Marc Steinberg Marc Steinberg is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, and director of The Platform Lab. He is the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (University of Minnesota Press, 2012, translated into Japanese and Italian); The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Commercial Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2019); and, with Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen and Melissa Gregg, Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). He is also the co-editor of Media Theory in Japan (Duke University Press, 2017). His article “From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a Prehistory of the Digital Economy” was recently published in Organization Studies, and other work has appeared in Asiascape: Digital Asia; Social Media + Society; Journal of Visual Culture; Theory, Culture & Society, among other journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/7ab62d86-7db1-4f7a-afca-960d43ab071d/pic.jpeg Members - Janice Ka-Wa Cheung Janice Ka-Wa Cheung is an artist and researcher born in Hong Kong. She received her Master’s degree in media art at the City University of Hong Kong, and her work was presented at ISEA 2016 and other conferences. Janice is currently a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University. She continues to pursue research-creation study with interest in examining the technologically filtered women’s self-imaginary through installation art. Her work explores how cultural, social, and economic values are inscribed, circulated, and practiced through digital filters and hence mediating users’ practices. Her creation work aims to reveal one’s postmodern, fragmented, and polymorphic digital identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/b051c774-036c-4b7a-a69c-755278e30f2f/Opera+Instantan%C3%A9_2021-11-29_125252_stephaniesherman.info.png Members - Stephanie Sherman Stephanie Sherman is a director, strategist, writer and producer working across across design, technology, architecture, and culture. Her work reprograms and reorganises outmoded systems as collaborative platforms, leveraging surplus, story, and speculation to design socio-technical transitions. She currently directs the MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins London, is a researcher at Autonomy (a think tank on the future of work), runs Radioee.net (a nomadic translingual radio station), and leads the Automation team at the UC San Diego Design Lab. http://stephaniesherman.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/3f568903-2dc1-4333-8470-8a6aab71fe63/SantinoCiarmaProfile.jpg Members - Santino Ciarma Santino is an MA student in Film Studies at Concordia University, having also completed a BA in Art History and Film Studies at the same institution. His research interests include transmedia studies of comic books and manga, and the transnational history of animation and anime industries. He is also interested in studying how fan practices and participatory cultures become extensions of these texts, particularly through digital platforms. Most recently, he has been researching the transnational history of technological shifts in animation production and the adoption of 3DCG technology in anime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634853005698-Q9G7482GPPSHPKTHZMWT/IMG_3228.jpg Members - Sneha Kumar Sneha Kumar is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. They received their MA in Film Studies from Carleton University, where they wrote their graduate thesis on the online Carmilla fandom as a community of queer feeling. Their research interests lie at the intersection of new media and fandom, specifically looking at how affect travels within the online fandoms of the transnational lesbian web series and how it intersects with nation, caste, class, race and neurodiversity thereby replicating power hierarchies. Additionally, they are also interested in the ways in which desire gets coded on fan platforms. Their work has been published in the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures and RENDER. You can find them on Tumblr @skbaba14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/3b3fe715-d352-4959-8297-2444271b122e/jin_image2.png Members - Dal Yong Jin Dal Yong Jin is Distinguished SFU Professor. He completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois in 2005. Jin’s major research and teaching interests are on digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books and journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews. Jin’s books include Korea’s Online Gaming Empire (MIT Press, 2010), New Korean Wave: transnational cultural power in the age of social media (University of Illinois Press, 2016), Smartland Korea: mobile communication, culture and society (University of Michigan Press, 2017), and Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age (Routledge, 2019). Jin has published journal articles in New Media and Society, The Information Society, Media, Culture and Society, Television and New Media, Games and Culture, and Information Communication and Society. He is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia, while directing Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at SFU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d9c45a4c-2a34-4789-a598-73ccb207973a/Circle_Grey_Solid.svg.png Members - Andre Maffioletti Andre Maffioletti is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. He has a Master’s degree in Film from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His current research focuses on the media ecology of the works of Japanese director Sono Sion. He is also part of the editorial collective of the graduate student-run Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, as well as the Film Review Editor for the ejcjs: Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/e9c7a35e-9dba-41a3-bdf9-68f3b5fe69c6/KEIDL_JQYA+Foto_FINAL.jpeg Members - Philipp Dominik Keidl Philipp Dominik Keidl is Assistant Professor of Screen Media in Transition in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. He holds a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University in Montreal and an MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam. Philipp Dominik's published work concentrates on fandom, media and material culture, and film heritage and institutions. His current monograph project examines the relationship and power dynamics among media industries, heritage institutions, and audiences in the making of film and media history. Case studies such as industry-produced making-ofs, fan-made restoration tutorials, amateur exhibitions, state-run museums, and oral history projects reveal how the ownership of film and media history, as well as the cultural memory of their respective audiences and fan communities, is established, challenged, and negotiated through a diverse range of curatorial and production practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/5fcb094e-b171-44a5-8e75-6ae285fb9351/IMG_5347.jpeg Members - Insook Park Insook Park is a PhD student in Film & Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. Her research interests are media technology and industry studies. Her work investigates socioeconomic dynamics within the Korean platform landscape. Specifically, her research focuses on elucidating two divergent dimensions of the global diffusion of Korean popular culture. While Korean dramas predominantly depend on U.S.-based streaming giants in their production and distribution, Korean popular music agencies opt to establish their independent platforms, consolidating global fan engagement and augmenting their financial returns. Beyond this, she is interested in the Korean messenger app Kakao Talk's pursuit of monopolization and the strategic significance of content accessibility and community building in its overarching strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634849897627-KOEJXWRWJVFXKJPFCV0Q/K--cRWJj_400x400.jpg Members - Aurélie Petit Aurélie Petit is a PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. She previously completed her Master’s degree in Film Studies at La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, in collaboration with l’École Normale Supérieure and Paris 7. Her research explores the links between online board culture and anime, with a focus on far-right ideologies of racism and sexism. Another ongoing research interest of hers has been the reception of Japanese pornographic animation in France and North America. In 2020-2021, she operated as the President of the Film Doctoral Student Association. She is currently a member of the Feminist Media Studio and of TAG, Milieux Institute’s research cluster. She was the former Publicity and Promotions Co-Coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy. Her Twitter handle is @aurelievpetit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/fb9a9ae7-12f7-4e82-bf60-7f3e15b0741e/Roslina_Chai_Jade+Collar_Circle.png Members - Roslina Chai Roslina Chai is a strategy process facilitator, conflict mediator, and executive mentor to senior leaders navigating high-stakes situations. She received her Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (researching the superapp-society interface through a corporate social innovation, corporate governance, and value architecture lens) from Ecole des Ponts Business School (Paris). Informed by a social justice sensibility, Roslina is particularly interested in grounding the explication of the emerging superapp phenomenon in 1) nascent theorisation of the digital object, 2) the nexus of the corporation as a specific legal entity and theory of the firm, and 3) culturally specific digital ethics. Her work is published in Sage and Ethikos. Aside from superapps, Roslina researches and speaks on conflict, compassion and human flourishing, and is an amateur improvisational actress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/c7474c1a-daf5-4126-ac81-d6ae0f658ec2/1634757440600+-+Amelle.jpg Members - Amelle Margaron Amelle Margaron is an MA student in Media Studies at Concordia University. She is interested in digital storytelling and internet art, particularly as relating to the themes of performance, spectatorship, and user agency. Focusing on a type of blogging content called “web-weaving”, Amelle explores how platformed creative practice can link private narratives into broader webs of community storytelling. Her thesis explores the formation and values of creative networked communities on the social media platform Tumblr. More generally, Amelle’s research is interested in visual media, art history, and platform studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634925863117-M4F8631GB0WKZ6QJM2A6/Srz0odpo_400x400.jpg Members - Stefanie Duguay Stefanie Duguay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. Her research focuses on the influence of digital media technologies in everyday life, with particular attention to the intersection of sexual identity, gender, and social media. This has included studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people’s use of social media, dating apps, and multiple platforms for digital self-representation. Stefanie’s research has been published in New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Information, Communication & Society and other international, peer-reviewed journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/3b54aca0-de7a-43a9-9f1d-86caf85873a3/elena.jpeg Members - Elena Altheman Elena Altheman is a PhD candidate at Concordia University in Montréal. Her research examines the political economy of the Brazilian animation industry, focusing on animated labour and public policies. Awarded with the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program in 2018 for her research on animated narratives, her more recent work has been published on Animation Studies journal. Elena is also a scriptwriter and has been nominated twice for the International Emmy Awards. She teaches screenwriting and has written for productions such as Chico Bento e a Goiabeira Maraviósa (TBA), Irmão do Jorel (2014), Nutty Boy (2022) and Wake Up, Carlo! (2023). Her works can be seen on Netflix, HBOMax, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central and others. She is the co-author of Irmão do Jorel: Livro Fenomenal, published in 2021 by Harper Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/b2e58ee4-64a3-48fe-8d5a-9b001270ea9b/Circle_Grey_Solid.svg.png Members - Oliver Joncus With an undergraduate degree in English and a Graduate Diploma in Communications, Oliver’s academic journey has spanned from deep textual analysis to understanding complex media ecosystems. Oliver’s current research focuses on the intricate dynamics of 'State Platform Capitalism' (SPC), an emergent paradigm where digital platforms and state directives converge, most notably in the US and China. His investigative lens primarily focuses on the strategies employed by global powers like Beijing and Washington in leveraging their native digital platforms to achieve broader geopolitical-economic agendas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/05dd9648-4f59-4d26-b10b-ccd1ebc9a70c/KathrynArmstrongCMFTrendsBioPic+-+Katie+Armstrong.JPG Members - Kathryn Armstrong Kathryn Armstrong (she/her) is a SSHRC Research Fellow and PhD Candidate of Concordia’s Communication Department. Her work examines the Canadian public media system, including Canadian government's approach to international media distribution and its handling of media partnerships and content development. Kathryn specializes in Canada’s international treaty co-production and how Canadian media producers forge these agreements. Kathryn utilizes her professional experience alongside her academic expertise in her current PhD research. Her past work in producer advocacy at the Canadian Media Producers Association as well as her management of international director and producer relations for the Toronto International Film Festival continue to drive her research inquiries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/8767d36c-7e40-475b-b73c-003d0f837f9f/fenwickmckelvey-2_400x400.jpg Members - Fenwick McKelvey Fenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He studies the digital politics and policy, appearing frequently as an expert commentator in the media and intervening in media regulatory hearings. He is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (Peter Lang, 2012) with Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois. His research has been published in journals including New Media and Society, the International Journal of Communication, public outlets such as The Conversation and Policy Options, and been reported by The Globe and Mail, CBC The Weekly and CBC The National. He is also a member of the Educational Review Committee of the Walrus Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/cefc91c3-7f12-4ef8-b3c7-ade5d5cae2c2/Circle_Grey_Solid.svg.png Members - Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban Dr. Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban (they/them pronouns). Cotutelle graduate in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Communication at Paris Saint-Denis University. Course Lecturer in East Asian Studies at McGill University. Edo’s work focuses on the history of Japanese transmedia storytelling, or media mix, with a focus on female and queer perspectives. Their work emerges out of grassroots activities mapping the impact of daily pedestrian practices of fandoms IRL in cities, and online across media platforms, on the media mix industry. Edo’s publications include ethnographic research on female fandoms in Tokyo, discussions about transmedia in Japanese video games, as well as upcoming research on queer media history in Asia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1634926363485-XOOBV2BUXV1XVK32672T/3b02f2bed53c74ed24324fc6311f3798.jpg Members - Thomas Lamarre Thomas Lamarre is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. His research centers on the history of media, thought, and material culture, with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9th century Japan (Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription , 2000), to silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics, 2005), animation technologies (The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, 2009) and on television and new media (The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media , 2018). Current projects include research on animation that addresses the use of animals in the formation of media networks associated with colonialism and extraterritorial empire, and the consequent politics of animism and speciesism. He has also edited volumes on cinema and animation, on the impact of modernity in East Asia, on pre-emptive war, and, as Associate Editor of Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts, a number of volumes on manga, anime, and fan cultures. Current editorial work includes volumes on Chinese animation as well as risk, media, and animality. https://www.theplatformlab.com/news daily 0.75 2024-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/efccc652-372a-4c34-8d33-24fc6abf8bf2/Screen+Shot+2024-01-09+at+2.14.17+PM.png News - Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, and Rahul Mukherjee on Platform Capitalisms Platform lab director Marc Steinberg begins 2024 with an article on “Platform capitalisms and platform cultures”, co-authoured with Lin Zhang and lab affiliate Rahul Murkherjee for the International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d19e26cb-e366-49b2-8db0-da7b62535516/GRE82LTWQAAaVIA.jpg News - New Article from Platform Lab Coordinator Colin Crawford on Protocol Power Check out Platform Lab Coordinator Colin Crawford’s new article Protocol power: Matter, IoT interoperability, and a critique of industry self-regulation in a recent special issue of the Internet Policy Review “Locating and Theorising Platform Power,” guest-edited by David Nieborg, Thomas Poell, Robyn Caplan, and Jose van Dijck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/3b3fe715-d352-4959-8297-2444271b122e/jin_image2.png News - Dal Yong Jin on Streaming and the Korean Wave in 2023 Platform Lab Affiliate Faculty member Dal Yon Jin is a leading scholar on the topic of the Korean Wave in critical industry studies of streaming, publishing a number of fantastic articles in 2023. Read Jin’s recent work on the relationships between Korean media industries, local, regional, and global streaming platforms, and the rising transnational popularity of Korean content in the links below. - “Critical Cultural Industries Studies: A New Approach to the Korean Wave in the Netflix Era.” International Journal of Communication (2023) - Platformization of the Korean Wave: a critical perspective.” Communication Research and Practice. (Jin, Yoon, & Han, 2023) - “Netflix’s Effects on the Korean Wave: power relations between local cultural industries and global OTT platforms.” (2023) - “Platformization of Korean Internet portals toward mega-platforms: A historical approach.” First Monday. (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1ecf5b36-6919-4693-b646-4d7523c667df/wYoOq0sb.jpeg News - Special issue of Media, Culture & Society on Super Apps Co-edited by Lab Director Marc Steinberg with Rahul Mukherjee and Aswin Punathambekar, this special issue, “Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps,” looks at the conditions for the platforms & super apps in translocal Asia, offering a critical look at the megacorps behind it. Check out their introduction here, and the full issue here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/c6bc845f-f8c6-43ec-8ca5-af0cfcf6424d/yusuke.jpeg News - Concordia lab releases report on the impact of platform wars on Japanese animation (Feb. 16 2022) Concordia news item on The Platform Lab’s “Anime Streaming Platform Wars” report and interview with the report’s editor & Lab coordinator Aurélie Petit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/8f91647e-d896-4574-b12d-bc6a1794bed9/cjc.2022.47.issue-4.largecover.jpg News - “Listening to Others: Dubbing Global Media in Québec” Theo Stojanov, a friend of The Platform Lab, recently published this brilliant article in the Canadian Journal of Communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/af282f89-ba84-4f16-bb57-a5d03ddba001/In%3Aconvenience.jpg News - New Open Access Collection In/Convenience, edited Marc Steinberg & Joshua Neves “Convenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates our platformed present. As such, it poses urgent techno-political questions about the everyday digital habitus. From next-day delivery, gig work, and tele-health to cashless payment systems, data centers, and policing – convenience is an affordance and an enclosure; our logistical surround.” Emerging out of a media theory reading group and intimate conference held in 2022, this open access collection, edited by Platform Lab director Marc Steinberg and Global Emergent Media Lab director Joshua Neves, features a range of contributions on the theme of media in/conveniences, from convenience stores, to sleep apps, sex media, cloud infrastructures and “convenient-for-the-people” state surveillance. Read more, and order or download a copy from the publisher, The Institute of Network Cultures here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/594e2f7d-b978-4fda-a079-d055ddd0f4a2/steven+jake.png News - Panel Discussion (Dec. 3, 2020) with Platform Lab members Jake Pitre & Jacqueline Ristola around the book they contributed to, Representation in Steven Universe (Palgrave, 2020). Click here to watch the panel! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/f99536de-1077-4813-99f2-12550624a80a/mini.jpeg News - Media and Management, co-edited by Platform Lab’s director Marc Steinberg, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, and Melissa Gregg Lab Director Marc Steinberg has just published a new coauthored book, Media and Management. Coauthored with Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, and Melissa Gregg, Media and Management offers an essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor. Drawing on rich historical and ethnographic case studies, this book approaches key instances of the industrial and service economy—the legacy of Toyotism in today’s software industry, labor mediators in electronics manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe, and app-based food-delivery platforms in China—to push media and management studies in new directions. The book is available Open Access via Meson Press here. A companion article by Dr. Steinberg in Organization Studies builds on the insights of this book, showing how Toyota’s automobile production is at the heart of platform capitalism. Find it here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d918514e-a2f8-4bfb-bea8-53e4d0ef66b3/akiko.jpeg News - Dr Akiko Sugawa-Shimada’s work on anime, manga and cultural studies explores the 2.5-dimensional Check out what Dr Akiko Sugawa-Shimada has published on anime, manga, fandom and cultural practices in 2023. Dr Sugawa-Shimada recent work focuses on the 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) culture, which she defines as performances that generate interrelations between the real, fictional, and cyber worlds. This includes theatrical performances of anime, manga, and games, cosplay, voice actor/character concerts, Vtubers, contents tourism, etc. Our Platform Lab’s Affiliate Faculty was guest editor of the Mechademia journal, which you will find here: Mechademia: Second Arc "2.5D Culture'' (Spring, 2023) She also published an article in the subsequent edition of Mechademia, edited by Platform Lab’s director Dr Marc Steinberg, which you will find here: “A 2.5D Approach to the Media Mix: The Potentialities of Fans’ Produsage” Mechademia: Second Arc "Media Mix" (Winter, 2023) Dr Sugawa-Shimada was also co editor of the book Cultural Approaches to Studio Ghibli Animation, published in 2022 in Japanese by 七月社. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/0ce164ce-a7fd-49de-a402-6f4b476f63ce/Screen+Shot+2022-10-06+at+1.37.49+PM.png News - Platform Lab releases report on Super Apps Read the new report here. https://www.theplatformlab.com/reports daily 0.75 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/28dc6f01-efcf-47b0-a39e-2a13956beb3f/0003.jpg Anime Streaming Platform Wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/60df0dfb-1905-44e7-bc99-16cffab44447/0001.jpg Anime Streaming Platform Wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/e630102b-60b7-4efd-9926-d39bf48afe38/0005.jpg Anime Streaming Platform Wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d88448c5-fe89-4c80-b07d-ee24cc654f8f/0002.jpg Anime Streaming Platform Wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/08a67790-d1a5-471a-a8c6-2d78dcbcf7eb/0004.jpg Anime Streaming Platform Wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/4694dcef-b3dd-4f6f-a8a5-601cdbc74fc1/0006.jpg Anime Streaming Platform Wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theplatformlab.com/inconvenience daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/09b2c6c7-977c-49d1-a79b-30dab81d66f3/unnamed.jpeg In/Convenience - IN/CONVENIENCE https://www.theplatformlab.com/super-apps daily 0.75 2022-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/0a6e2e7f-b76d-493b-bc19-96f83a932d90/0002.jpg Super Apps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/ee02bff7-30c2-4b6f-bc96-cb94ff22eea7/0001.jpg Super Apps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/db21e38a-3798-4d8f-8d4b-595275eff6c8/0004.jpg Super Apps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/a61ccc81-6773-431a-892a-770c0b75a2f3/0003.jpg Super Apps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/021a336f-3219-4e29-9bfd-2737ed5b81ca/0005.jpg Super Apps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theplatformlab.com/past-events daily 0.75 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/cf2ac280-7de2-4805-86f8-9f2714da0e4d/Screen+Shot+2023-03-27+at+01.43.29.png Past Events - The Internet of Landlords, with Jathan Sadowski (Feb. 10, 2022) 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/28b2f43b-0aa6-4fcc-8709-3bbc264ad741/Screen+Shot+2023-03-27+at+01.25.52.png Past Events - A Conversation On Everyday Movies: Portable Projectors & American Culture (April 2, 2021) A Conversation On Everyday Movies: Portable Projectors & American Culture (APR. 2, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/7a36a6e2-c114-4c0f-b34d-507aa52f4897/Screen+Shot+2023-03-27+at+01.34.59.png Past Events - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/4fda8110-aa58-45b1-9e2c-e3c2acd49061/platformas+and+cultural.jpg Past Events - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/75e6060e-afb3-459e-9824-0a5a6a54c0a8/inconveniece.png Past Events - In/Convenience Conference (April 21-22, 2022) The 2021-22 GEM Seminar is organized around the problem of In/Convenience and is co-organized by the Platform Lab. More info here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/7dbd412d-917d-45bb-ac7f-43193c2c95a1/unnamed.jpg Past Events - SYMPOSIUM: Just-in-Time Platforms (Nov. 9, 2020) Symposium: Just-In-Time Platforms (NOV. 9, 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/6d70dae9-9cab-4726-9ec1-c8c7d03f0f4d/Screen+Shot+2025-01-23+at+11.57.06+AM.png Past Events - Platform Regulation Lab Report Launch (Feb 14, 2025) Celebrate the release of our lab report on Platform Regulation, featuring a number of brief case studies from around the world investigating how governments are attempting to regulate platforms, as well as how platforms continue to regulate various aspects of social and cultural life. From platform lobbying to censorship to state funding, this report brings together a number of perspectives to examine the various dynamics of platform regulation at play today. The launch will feature a roundtable with the report’s contributors, and we are also very excited to be joined by platform governance scholar Rob Gorwa from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center as a respondent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/cf4b6bfd-625b-4402-b3ff-396fcf5a043a/Screen+Shot+2023-03-27+at+01.38.07.png Past Events - Chinese Smartphones in Africa, with Seyram Avle (Jan. 27 2022) 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/b6f6b8b7-ddef-4b8d-bd55-46b9904d6917/platform.png Past Events - 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. https://www.theplatformlab.com/news-copy daily 0.75 2024-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/d918514e-a2f8-4bfb-bea8-53e4d0ef66b3/akiko.jpeg News (Copy) - Dr Akiko Sugawa-Shimada’s work on anime, manga and cultural studies explores the 2.5-dimensional Check out what Dr Akiko Sugawa-Shimada has published on anime, manga, fandom and cultural practices in 2023. Dr Sugawa-Shimada recent work focuses on the 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) culture, which she defines as performances that generate interrelations between the real, fictional, and cyber worlds. This includes theatrical performances of anime, manga, and games, cosplay, voice actor/character concerts, Vtubers, contents tourism, etc. Our Platform Lab’s Affiliate Faculty was guest editor of the Mechademia journal, which you will find here: Mechademia: Second Arc "2.5D Culture'' (Spring, 2023) She also published an article in the subsequent edition of Mechademia, edited by Platform Lab’s director Dr Marc Steinberg, which you will find here: “A 2.5D Approach to the Media Mix: The Potentialities of Fans’ Produsage” Mechademia: Second Arc "Media Mix" (Winter, 2023) Dr Sugawa-Shimada was also co editor of the book Cultural Approaches to Studio Ghibli Animation, published in 2022 in Japanese by 七月社. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/3b3fe715-d352-4959-8297-2444271b122e/jin_image2.png News (Copy) - Dal Yong Jin on Streaming and the Korean Wave in 2023 Platform Lab Affiliate Faculty member Dal Yon Jin is a leading scholar on the topic of the Korean Wave in critical industry studies of streaming, publishing a number of fantastic articles in 2023. Read Jin’s recent work on the relationships between Korean media industries, local, regional, and global streaming platforms, and the rising transnational popularity of Korean content in the links below. - “Critical Cultural Industries Studies: A New Approach to the Korean Wave in the Netflix Era.” International Journal of Communication (2023) - Platformization of the Korean Wave: a critical perspective.” Communication Research and Practice. (Jin, Yoon, & Han, 2023) - “Netflix’s Effects on the Korean Wave: power relations between local cultural industries and global OTT platforms.” (2023) - “Platformization of Korean Internet portals toward mega-platforms: A historical approach.” First Monday. (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/8f91647e-d896-4574-b12d-bc6a1794bed9/cjc.2022.47.issue-4.largecover.jpg News (Copy) - “Listening to Others: Dubbing Global Media in Québec” Theo Stojanov, a friend of The Platform Lab, recently published this brilliant article in the Canadian Journal of Communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/1ecf5b36-6919-4693-b646-4d7523c667df/wYoOq0sb.jpeg News (Copy) - Special issue of Media, Culture & Society on Super Apps Co-edited by Lab Director Marc Steinberg with Rahul Mukherjee and Aswin Punathambekar, this special issue, “Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps,” looks at the conditions for the platforms & super apps in translocal Asia, offering a critical look at the megacorps behind it. Check out their introduction here, and the full issue here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/0ce164ce-a7fd-49de-a402-6f4b476f63ce/Screen+Shot+2022-10-06+at+1.37.49+PM.png News (Copy) - Platform Lab releases report on Super Apps Read the new report here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/efccc652-372a-4c34-8d33-24fc6abf8bf2/Screen+Shot+2024-01-09+at+2.14.17+PM.png News (Copy) - Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, and Rahul Mukherjee on Platform Capitalisms Platform lab director Marc Steinberg begins 2024 with an article on “Platform capitalisms and platform cultures”, co-authoured with Lin Zhang and lab affiliate Rahul Murkherjee for the International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://www.theplatformlab.com/platform-regulation daily 0.75 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/ffc4bc63-f470-43cc-85aa-52c07c8b18ab/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/f5f68430-f59d-48a2-9b06-645076f341b1/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/941cd414-221d-471a-a1ce-b3a234b8717f/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/24083378-a01b-4dd1-a741-d3673a0d6d23/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/9e3b2cb2-532f-4318-aa84-fc78d3dbe31d/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/833f490b-e937-4651-89f9-50bd604b79a9/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/2f6843db-d339-49c1-9057-b23316cd4436/Platform+Regulation_final.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theplatformlab.com/platform-regulation-project daily 0.75 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7bdc0f06638c0f2ac4dcd4/63608b6f-4795-486a-99b1-f2b97f4f6968/Screen+Shot+2025-01-23+at+11.57.06+AM.png Platform Regulation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.