Platforms, Power, and Friction (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction: Platform frictions, platform power, and the politics of platformization?1. Patrons of commerce: asymmetrical reciprocity and moral economies of platform power?2. Competing digital capacities: between state-led digital governance and local data center tradeoffs?3.? Frictions and flows in Twitch’s platform economy: viewer spending, platform features and user behaviours 4. Dreaming of seamless interfaces: media and friction from the feuilleton to personal computing 5. Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment?6. Smooth operator: sleuthing Homo oeconomicus on social media platforms through a close reading of design 7. The specter of global ByteDance: platforms, regulatory arbitrage, and politics??8. Dis//assemblages of AI: repair labor and resistance in the automated workplace

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