Three approaches to platform studies: cobweb, billiard balls, and ant societies

• Main Author: Qiu, Jack Linchuan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Mass media; Platform Studies; Geopolitics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171067
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Digital media platforms are becoming increasingly subject to the sway of geopolitics, as seen during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the US-China trade war. How are platforms becoming geopoliticized? What perspectives shall we use to make sense of the process? This theoretical paper reformulates...