1. Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s marketplace is hugely profitable. I have a new piece on how Amazon keeps these profits secret. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

So seen 🫠

All social problems are problems of entitlement, in both the legal and moral/affective sense.

What does Nairobi tell us about affordable Chinese phones that dominate Africa's electronic sales? I've tried to answer this question about the elsewheres of data economies here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… thank you Jack Odeo Mwangi Mwaura UTA-Do African Cities Workshop

Really looking forward to this talk about my book project and to being in Toronto again! I'll also be speaking about our new OA journal, Platforms & Society, together with Rafael Grohmann and Julie Yujie Chen.

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…

So happy to finally see this out in Platforms & Society. I love this piece - thanks for writing it Devika Narayan!! 🙏

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. 🙏😘

Tamara Kneese Yvonne Eadon, PhD ASAP/Journal Platforms & Society accepts multimédia submissions!

New paper: "Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities" I am honoured to be part of this amazing team journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… andrea pollio Jack Odeo Rike Sitas Alicia Fortuin Alexis African Centre for Cities

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…