Fresh from the kick-off of molo.news - our platform for local news, whose nationwide launch we are now testing, with a team at @zemki, HBI and Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig. With funding from VIP+ @bmbf_bund, we want to further develop the platform for local media, collectives and officials so that it is interesting for as many cities as possible. More at https://molo.news/ #Platformisation #LocalJournalism #journalism #pioneerjournalism #PlatformCoop

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

Editorial:
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?

Felicitas Macgilchrist, John Potter & Ben Williamson

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2022.2140673

#Platformisation, #datafication, #surveillance

Hello fellow #commodon researchers! I’ll be posting about #children #youth #media #platformisation #datafication #practices and would love to hear about interesting people to follow. 👋