The politics of platformization: genealogy from administrative reform to platform governance
Angela Xiao Wu | June 30, 2026
Inside Digital Advertising: Platforms, Power, and Material Politics
Donald MacKenzie and Koray Caliskan | November 1, 2025
Economizing attention: Markets and barter in video advertising platforms
Koray Caliskan and Donald MacKenzie | July 2, 2026
Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: Education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training
Janja Komljenovic, Ben Williamson, Kean Birch and Klaus D. Beiter | February 9, 2026
EdTech futures: time, value and the promise of digital disruption in higher education
Claire Murray, Sam Sellar, Janja Komljenovic and Kean Birch | May 11, 2026
Cloud assets and the “unit of compute”: Market dominance in commercial computing
Jacob Hellman and Kean Birch | July 7, 2026
The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy
Linda Huber, Cella Sum and Sarah Fox | January 26, 2026
Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system
Linda Huber | July 13, 2025
Labor not property: Why artists are fighting the wrong battle on generative AI
Jake Goldenfein | September 25, 2025
Platforms & Society Theme Issue: Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?
Janet Roitman, Andrew Moon, Leila Lin, Mark Andrejevic, Zoe Elena Horn, Michael Richardson, Franziska Cooiman, Jake Goldenfein, Angela Xiao Wu, Kelsie Nabben, Linda Huber, and Ellie Rennie | September 22, 2025
Sociotechnical enveloping: Productization of APIs and the transnational expansion of Alipay+
Jing Wang | September 16, 2025
Financial Statecraft in the Digital Age: FinTech and the Institutional Shifts in China’s Cross-Border Payment Sector Since 1993
Jing Wang | August 11, 2025
Platform Economies: Beyond the North/South Divide
Janet Roitman | May 21, 2025
“A Bridge to Nowhere”: A Healthcare Case Study for Non-Reformist Design
Linda Huber | April 25, 2025
Teleological Limits: Value Creation on Financial Platforms
Janet Roitman | December 12, 2024
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms
Koray Caliskan | December 12, 2024
The better bandit: decentralised infrastructure, crypto-States, and the rematerialisation of virtual worlds
Ellie Rennie | December 3, 2024
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya
Emma Park | October 11, 2024
The Politics of Platforms/Pingtai平台: A Chinese Genealogy
Angela Xiao Wu | September 16, 2024
Data Enclaves
Kean Birch | November 10, 2023
Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains
Koray Caliskan | August 1, 2023
Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide
Janet Roitman | January 27, 2023
Economies of Virtue – The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI
Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann | December 1, 2022
Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital
Franziska Cooiman | November 16, 2022
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’
Kean Birch and Callum Ward | November 8, 2022
The Algorithmic Distribution of News
James Meese and Sara Bannerman | September 25, 2022
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation, Social Studies of Science.
Kean Birch | August 15, 2022
Knowledge/Seizure: Debt and Data in Kenya’s Zero Balance Economy
Emma Park and Kevin Donovan | March 16, 2022
The Elephant in the Dark: A New Framework for Cryptocurrency Taxation and Exchange Platform Regulation in the US
Koray Çalışkan | March 4, 2022
Big Tech
Kean Birch and Kelly Bronson | February 15, 2022
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community
Koray Caliskan | December 27, 2021
Public service media, innovation policy and the ‘crowding out’ problem
James Meese | December 20, 2021
International Consultancy Firms and African States: New Debt Bonds
Janet Roitman | September 1, 2021
Techniques of Use: Confronting Value Systems of Productivity, Progress, and Usefulness in Computing and Design
Cindy Lin and Silvia Lindtner | May 6, 2021
Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech
Kean Birch, DT Cochrane, Callum Ward | May 16, 2021
Phenomenal World: Supercomputer
Ella Coon | January 16, 2021
Africa Rising. Class or Finance?
Janet Roitman | January 1, 2021
Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains
Koray Çaliskan | December 1, 2020
Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production.
Silvia Lindtner | September 15, 2020
Public Seminar: Is Capitalism in Crisis, Dying, Dead — or Very Much Alive, for Better or Worse?
In search of an elusive concept
Ben Kodres-O'Brien | August 27, 2020
Public Seminar: Where Is the Risk in the COVID Economy? A look at shadow banking
Janet Roitman and Andrew Moon | July 30, 2020
Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian
Emily Bowe, Erin Simmons, Shannon Mattern | July 27, 2020
How should we theorize algorithms? Five ideal types in analyzing algorithmic normativities
Francis Lee & Lotta Björklund Larsen | August 13, 2019
Recalibration in counting and accounting practices: Dealing with algorithmic output in public and private
Farzana Dudhwala & Lotta Björklund Larsen | July 17, 2019
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promise.
Lilly Irani | March 12, 2019
Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism
Kean Birch | February 6, 2019
A Fair Share of Tax: A Fiscal Anthropology of Contemporary Sweden
Lotta Björklund Larsen | January 15, 2018
Women’s Studies Quarterly: PRECARIOUS WORK
This issue explores the political work of precarity and the precarity of work itself through both text and image.
Edited by Alyson Cole and Victoria Hattam | December 12, 2017
Anti-Crisis