The first of a number of invited opening commentaries features Jose van Dijck who discusses the state of platform studies as well as the challenges of researching and governing platform societies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Whoohoo, Nico Palacios (whose PhD project I co-supervise) had his first article out - and in the great IJURR.org to boot! Congrats Nico, this is a wonderful achievement! 🥳🥂

We are happy to announce our second launch commentary, where Devika Narayan reflects on the importance of a political economy of market structures for platform research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

This is the very FIRST original research article that we have the pleasure of publishing in our new journal, Platforms & Society! Very happy and proud to see this online and thanks to Kostas Floros for writing such a thoughtful and incisive article and sending it our way. 🙏😘

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Our first original research article on the algorithmic management of house-cleaning platform labour journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

I'm happy to share a new Commentary by Brett Neilson, now available OA on our Platforms & Society site: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29… Neilson reflects on what 'consolidation' means for the future of platform capitalism - and for how we critically study it.

Another commentary is out: this time Brett Neilson discusses consolidation as an entry point to the study of the political economy of platforms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…