Platforms! A workshop with Marc Steinberg
Since 2010 there has been a wave of scholarship which conceptualise 'platforms', 'platformization', and 'platform capitalism', including Marc Steinberg's work on platform capitalisms and cultures - from automobiles, to super apps, to convenience stores - especially across Asia. The notion of the platform became a fundamental, but taken for granted, concept in the field. But platforms are not neutral. They are characterised by constantly shifting forms, cultures, politics and geographies. In this all-day workshop, led by Marc Steinberg, we take a pause to reinterrogate the complexities of platforms and platform scholarship.
Program*
Start | Session |
11:30am | Lunch |
12:30pm | Session 1 Marc Steinberg – From Platforms to Paraplatforms: Some Reflections on Platforms’ Elsewheres Meg Thomas – Platform aesthetics: how platforms and digital cultures reconfigure the film and television product Amanda Lotz – Platforms: A misdirection for media industry studies? Mona Rayaprolu - Exploring AI fan fiction at the edges of platformisation |
2:45pm | Session 2 Adrian Anthique – TBA Giang Nguyen – Making Life Platform Ready Bingxi Huang – Cutting Chives: Chinese Rural Women Living Through the Platform Michelle Gay Nidoy - The Platform and You: What User Data Reveals about TikTok |
5:00pm | Workshop concludes |
*Program is subject to change
Consultations
- Meg Thomas
- Maria Gemma Brown
