Platforms, Power, Controversies
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Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
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Organizer(s):
Ludovico Rella Durham University
Susanne Schröder-Bergen Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Chair(s):
Ludovico Rella Durham University
Susanne Schröder-Bergen Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Description:
Platforms have emerged as core intermediaries, media, and infrastructures for the management of multiple forms of production, interaction, circulation, exchange etc. This panel wants to bring together extant reflections across fields – i.e., big data, open data and open knowledge, AI-ML, blockchain and crypto – around the roles of infrastructural materiality on one side, and political economy, on the other, to foreground the multiple types of controversies that populate and traverse infrastructures. Taking stock of the monopoly- and rent-seeking strategy of platforms, this panel wants to show how those strategies do not unfold unproblematically, and they are instead profoundly contested. Varieties of regulatory regimes and different types of grassroot activism produce multiple forms of engagement with platforms at the level of materiality, affect, distributive outcomes, political economies, participatory cultures, and imaginaries. All in all, this panel aims at mapping the complexity of controversies surrounding platforms and, in so doing, reflecting on the potential reworking of public, private and civil society spheres they may entail.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Anne Armstrong, Worcester State University |
"A river of hope"? A topic modeling analysis of Bronx River representations in the New York Times and on Twitter |
Cartus Bo-Xiang You, National Taiwan University |
Sovereignty as A Service: On-Demand Sovereignty and Dis/Connectivity of Cloud Geographies |
Susanne Schröder-Bergen, Department Geographie und Geowissenschaften Institut für Geographie |
Open Source and Open Knowledge as Geo-Economic Object in EU Digital Policies |
Tommi Inkinen, University of Turku |
Digitalization of Maritime Transport Systems: Open Data and Port Readiness |
Peter Dunn, University of Washington |
Affect and politics in anticipatory data infrastructures |
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Platforms, Power, Controversies
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Ludovico Rella Durham University
ludovico.rella@durham.ac.uk
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