Platform Economies
Research Network

2021

Thursday, 2 September

• Salon preparation:
  • Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade (2021) "The Society of Algorithms" Annual Review of Sociology.

Thursday, 16 September

• Salon #1 with Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade on their review essay.

Thursday, 30 September

• Reading session:
  • Jonas Breuer, Heritiana Ranaivoson, et al. (2014) "Location Data - A Trade-off between Control and Value" IEEE

Thursday, 14 October

• Salon preparation:
  • Kean Birch (2020) "Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism" Science, Technology, & Human Values
  • Kean Birch and DT Cochrane (2021) "Big Tech: Four Emerging Forms of Digital Rentiership" Science as Culture
  • Kean Birch, DT Cochrane, and Callum Ward (2021) “Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech” Big Data & Society

Thursday, 21 October

• Salon #2 with Kean Birch on technoscientific capitalism and processes of rentiership and assetization.

Thursday, 4 November

• Salon preparation:
  • Angèle Christin, Caitlin Petre (2020) “Making Peace with Metrics: Relational Work in Online News Production” Sociologica.
  • Francesco Bailo, James Meese, and Edward Hurcombe (2021) “The Institutional Impacts of Algorithmic Distribution: Facebook and the Australian News Media” Social Media and Society.
  • James Meese and Edward Hurcombe (2020) “Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms” New Media & Society

Thursday, 18 November

• Salon #3 with Angèle Christin & James Meese on digital media platforms and value production.

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2022

Thursday, 10 February

• Salon preparation:
  • Florian Jaton (2021) "The Constitution of Algorithms" The MIT Press

Thursday, 24 February

• Salon #4 with Florian Jaton about his recent work on algorithms and ground-truthing practices.

Thursday, 10 March

• Work-in-progress session with Na Fu, PhD candidate, Political Science, The New School, on her dissertation research about data learning shoe production in China.

Thursday, 24 March

• Work-in-progress session with Kelsie Nabben (RMIT) & Megan Kelleher (RMIT) on Decentralized Autonomous Organizaitons.
  • Kelsie Nabben, Megan Kelleher, et al (2021) "What Can 'Decentralised Autonomous Organisations' (DAOs) and Platform Cooperatives Learn from Each Other?"
  • Substack blog post (2021) from Kelsie: "Experiments in Algorithmic Governance Continue: Trying not to fail at Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)."
  • Kelsie Nabben (2022) "What Are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations?" YouTube.