Tech titans prepare for EU’s tougher market restraints https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/tech-titans-prepare-for-eus-tougher-market-restraints/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Amazon #Apple #dataprotection #digitalplatforms

#SocialMedia #DigitalPlatforms #Algorithms #Ethnomethodology #Personalization: "To conclude, it is fair to say that researching digital platforms pose new challenges compared to most other media forms because of their distinct ontology. Algorithms cannot be the main object of platform studies because of their hyper-modular, invisible, and inextricable nature. This, in addition to platforms’ deep embedding in our everyday lives, calls for novel theories and innovative research methods."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2023/08/08/rethinking-platform-studies-the-challenges-of-researching-algorithms-and-the-case-for-renewing-breaching-experiments/

Sumérgete en aguas ancestrales con Jurassic World Evolution 2: Prehistoric Marine Species Pack

https://powerups.es/sumergete-en-aguas-ancestrales-con-jurassic-world-evolution-2-prehistoric-marine-species-pack/

#Noticias #DigitalPlatforms #FrontierDevelopments #JurassicWorldEvolution2PrehistoricMarineSpeciesPack #UniversalGames

I was just thinking this exact thing yesterday:

"If one of the major dictionaries doesn’t choose “enshittification” as its word of the year, we’ll be surprised, because this concept is everywhere.
Masterfully coined by author Cory Doctorow, it’s exactly what it sounds like: when a digital platform slowly turns to shit."
#Enshittification #Neologism #WeNeedThisInADictionary #SocialMedia #DigitalPlatforms @pluralistic

https://thehustle.co/enshittification-just-keeps-happening-2/?utm_campaign=Thursday%20Email&utm_content=2023-07-13-enshittification-just-keeps-happening

#InternetGovernance #SocialMedia #DigitalPlatforms: "In an increasingly digital and interconnected world, platforms have emerged as powerful intermediaries that shape our online experiences, social interactions, and access to information. While platforms have brought numerous benefits, there is now an overwhelming recognition of their potential negative effects on individuals, society, and democracy. From the spread of misinformation and privacy concerns to cyberbullying and algorithmic biases, these harms demand a comprehensive and nuanced understanding, as well as mitigation strategies.
This paper serves as a summary report for the Democracy and Internet Governance Initiative, a two-year joint initiative between Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy. It delves into the rationale and components of a new risk-centered approach to analyze and address the negative impacts of digital platforms. It also explores the key dimensions that should be considered when assessing platform risk, including mental and physical health, financial security, privacy, social and reputational wellbeing, professional security, sovereignty, and strength of public goods."

https://shorensteincenter.org/towards-digital-platforms-and-public-purpose/?j=364454&sfmc_sub=42747086&l=94_HTML&u=6019885&mid=514003478&jb=3006

"In this edition of Net API Notes, I recap the source of initial Reddit API consternation, apply recent lessons we've had on platforms and developer ecosystem destruction, and end with what happens next. Are you currently attempting to scale a developer ecosystem, internally or externally? You will want to treat this as a case study of what can go wrong when shifting strategic priorities meets poor developer communication."

#reddit #reddark #digitalPlatforms
https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/wherefore-art-thou-reddit

Bit slow to give this one a plug on here, but better late than never!

We're holding a panel discussion: **New digital platforms — how, why and when should journalists and media get on board?**

It's on this Thursday evening, 5:30pm at ABC Brisbane.

Get all the details and RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/digital-platforms-how-why-and-when-should-journalists-and-media-get-on-board

#Brisbane #Event #SocialMedia #DigitalPlatforms #Journalism #Media

Referenced link: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-create-digital-platform-flywheels
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://hackernoon.com/how-to-create-digital-platform-flywheels

Originally posted by HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology / @hackernoon: http://nitter.platypush.tech/hackernoon/status/1651873947040858113#m

Steps to create a digital platform app flywheel. - https://hackernoon.com/how-to-create-digital-platform-flywheels #app #digitalplatforms

Jourová ‘uncomfortable’ on Twitter due to rise of Russian disinfo https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/jourova-uncomfortable-on-twitter-due-to-rise-of-russian-disinfo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #digitalplatforms #disinformation #ElonMusk #Russianpropaganda

Jourová ‘uncomfortable’ on Twitter due to rise of Russian disinfo https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/jourova-uncomfortable-on-twitter-due-to-rise-of-russian-disinfo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #digitalplatforms #disinformation #ElonMusk #Russianpropaganda

Jourová ‘uncomfortable’ on Twitter due to rise of Russian disinfo https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/jourova-uncomfortable-on-twitter-due-to-rise-of-russian-disinfo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #digitalplatforms #disinformation #ElonMusk #Russianpropaganda

The Advertising Industry Is Now Worth $1.2 Trillion, As Marketing in its various forms continues to grow through mobile, content marketing, social platforms, and new digital platforms

The Advertising and Marketing industry saw huge growth in 2017 and now comprises a market value of $1.2 Trillion. This is according to a new report by PQ Media.

https://towersofzeyron.com/the-advertising-industry-is-now-worth-1-2-trillion-marketing-in-its-various-forms-continues-to-grow-through-mobile-content-marketing-social-platforms-and-new-digital-platforms/

#Advertising #Industry #Worth #Trillion #DigitalPlatforms

🌷 Zum Osterwochenende haben wir noch ein paar neue Module für euch. Es beginnt mit Prof. Thomas Kude vom Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Plattformökonomie. Eine Vorlesung und zwei Seminare könnt ihr im Sommer bei ihm belegen.

#digitalplatforms #wirtschaftsinformatik #stundenplan #unibamberg #studieren

#DigitalPlatforms #BigTech #Oligopolies: "Vili Lehdonvirta is a Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He investigates how digital technologies have transformed the organization of the economy and society; more specifically, his objects of study are digital platforms and their effects on society. In 2022, Vili Lehdonvirta published ‘Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control’ by MIT Press.

The hypothesis underlying the book is bold: the organization of virtual space by digital platforms follows a trajectory similar to the social organization of Western societies in the past centuries. As societies and cities grow and we watch the densification of socio-economic interactions, decentralized and non-institutionalized forms of ‘government’ (e.g., trust-based) become inadequate. Thriving informal markets demand regulatory institutions. In the case of Western societies, this has occurred through the concentration of two functions – rule making and rule enforcing – under the national state. In the virtual space, platform companies have occupied this analogous position."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2193248

🔥Hot off the press "Google Service (Dream) Weaver" This week we take a look at Google Service Weaver and the next generation of distributed applications.

#serviceweaver #protobuf #grpc #monolith #distributedcloud #distributedsystems #distributedcomputing #microservices #microservicesarchitecture #convergence #devex #developertools #developerexperience #platformengineering #digitalplatforms #paradigmshift #newsletter #newsletters

https://fudge.org/archive/google-service-dream-weaver/

ACCC Digital platform services inquiry: Issues Paper released

#ACCC #Competition #DigitalPlatforms

https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/inquiries-ongoing/digital-platform-services-inquiry-2020-25/september-2023-interim-report

🔥Hot off the press "Buf.build Your REST" This week we take a look at the history of protocol buffers as well as the rise of buf cli and Buf Technologies.

#protocolbuffers #protobuf #gRPC #api #restful #restfulapi #restfulapis #venturecapital #devops #devsecops #dataops #schema #devex #developertools #developerexperience #platformengineering #digitalplatforms #paradigmshift #newsletter #newsletters

https://fudge.org/archive/bufbuild-your-rest/

#UNESCO #HumanRights #DigitalPlatforms #InternetRegulation #ContentModeration: "I sympathize with UNESCO’s desire to impose some order on the tech reckoning that has been spreading around the world for years. In my view, that order requires UN mechanisms to consider how they can ensure that regulatory efforts promote and protect human rights online. Threats to online rights come from the state, from the private sector, from individuals, and human rights principles should indeed guide the actions of all of these actors. But it is not for the UN to promote specific regulatory models, much less to develop templates of regulatory processes. Rather, the UN works best when it reasserts foundational principles and then provides mechanisms of review – whether through UN processes like Universal Periodic Review in the Human Rights Council or periodic review or individual complaints in the human rights treaty bodies. By the same logic, UN principles can be relevant to oversight by regional human rights courts and national human rights institutions and domestic courts."

https://ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2023/02/21/unesco-guidelines-for-regulating-digital-platforms-a-rough-critique/

Wrote about Twitter access amidst the humanitarian crisis caused by the earthquake in Turkey for @TheConversationUS

First eyewitness accounts are invaluable in helping emergency relief personnel and researchers assess the extent of damage and match aid to what’s needed on the ground.

#twitter #turkeyearthquake #platform #digitalplatforms #digitaldivide

https://theconversation.com/twitter-cutoff-in-turkey-amid-earthquake-rescue-operations-a-social-media-expert-explains-the-danger-of-losing-the-microblogging-service-in-times-of-disaster-199580

Gerardo Uña, Alok Verma, Majid Bazarbash and Naomi N Griffin, Fintech Payments in Public Financial Management: Benefits and Risks, International Monetary Fund, Working Paper No. 2023/020, February 3, 2023

— Available here: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/02/03/Fintech-Payments-in-Public-Financial-Management-Benefits-and-Risks-529100

#fintech #payments #digitalplatforms ##paymentsystems #mobilemoney #digitalmoney #operationalrisk #financialrisk #riskmanagement #publicsector #financialmanagement #treasurypayments #taxcollection #cashmanagement #IMF