Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager speaking about platform power this morning Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) with a frank admission I never expected to hear: 'We came to this problem too late.'

Hurray!! After years of development, my article —“Recasting Twitch”—with Brandon C Harris, PhD 🍉 and will partin 🐌 is out! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

If you’re interested in the relationship between livestreaming, journalism, and content creators read it today for FREE!! (more below)

Woah, my first #earthquake in... New Jersey??

My book, Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet, is available open access through JSTOR and U of MN Press's Manifold site. It's an origin story for data-driven advertising via the lens of political economy of media & tech. jstor.org/stable/10.5749…

New paper with DanjoKaZooie (@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social 'Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency' in Media, Culture and society - out open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

💥 News! Finally I can announce the start of a new SSHRC-funded research: Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms, an action research with delivery and tech workers in Brazil and Argentina, with me as PI, David B. Nieborg | @[email protected] as Co-I.
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🎞️ At a moment when movies are at the forefront of everyone’s minds, the Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to present a 90-second film of its own: a new anthem video showcasing IAS and its mission of enabling foundational discovery.

New pub alert!🚨

My book review of 'Platforms and Cultural Production' has just been published in the International Journal of Communication! #AcademicTwitter

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Looking forward to sharing an overview of my new book project with folks at Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy next week
citp.princeton.edu/event/citp-sem…

For those interested in apps, ad tech, platforms, mobile infrastructures & ecosystems, check out this very impressive contribution to App Studies by Dr. Jennifer Pybus and Mark Coté on 'super SDKs', open access in Big Data & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Now it finally feels real! #Podcasting book is complete. 📙👍💯

Prof. Mosco's passing represents the loss of a towering figure in the field of communication & media studies & the political economy of communication tradition. He shaped the field & the lives of many scholars for decades. I was lucky to have him as a mentor & friend. RIP Vinny!

I’ve rarely seen so many typically unflappable scholars being so 🤩🤩🤩 as when Colbert visited campus, myself included.

Happy new year all!! Also, announcing: 'Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures' - a short piece w/ Dr. Lin Zhang/@[email protected] & Rahul Mukherjee that argues the importance of the State in the platform-culture-market nexus. We build on the imp work of Nick Srnicek & others

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Our research project organizes a PhD course on ‚NEW CIRCUITS OF CULTURE: CREATORS, USERS, PLATFORMS & POLICY’ with an excellent line up of speakers. Come join us in May in Copenhagen! Deadline is 01/03, more info: phdcourses.dk/Course/112255

Dreamjob for Postdocs, the School of Social Science here Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is looking for a 2024–25 Civic Science Fellow recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/job…

Hi, Frederik Lesage and I co-edited a book that came out last week through Palgrave, 'Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production.' An interdisciplinary critique and exploration of what being creative in the digital domain means today. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

// PUBLICATION ALERT! //
The article entitled 'The platformization of consumer culture: A theoretical framework', co-authored by Alessandro Caliandro Lucia Bainotti Guido Anselmi and yours truly, is now available open access on Marketing Theory. Check it out!
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I am pleased and proud to announce my new book! 'Podcasting in a Platform Age' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) explores the massive transitions in #podcasting beginning around 2016 to the present. For academics as well as practitioners!

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In case you missed it, New Books Network has a podcast interview w Maxwell Foxman about our book Mainstreaming and Game Journalism newbooksnetwork.com/mainstreaming-…