Mikko Laamanen

Those stellar contributions, including from @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social, @niiina6.bsky.social, @laurenebridges.bsky.social, @samshorey.bsky.social, @mikkolaamanen.bsky.social, @snatale.bsky.social, and @mrjgames.bsky.social

Platforms, Power, and Friction | Pawel Popiel, Krishnan Vasudevan | Ta This edited book deconstructs the myth of frictionless digital platform expansion, revealing the persistent "platform frictions" that shape platform economies

Now out! My and @kvasudevan.bsky.social's new edited book, featuring stellar contributions grappling with the politics of digital platforms expanding and attempting to reshape politics, economics, and social relations in their extractive image.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Presenting Algorithmic Luddism or how refusal, resistance and reimagination is possible in algorithmic systems and societies!

A fruit of collaboration with @vasichar.bsky.social and @tuukka.bsky.social

@sifoforsk.bsky.social

@mariocampana.bsky.social @wanderingrohan.bsky.social @sifoforsk.bsky.social

✨ Celebration, publication! ✨ Glitter and be gay! ✨

✨ Our edited book "Drag as Marketplace" is out today on @brisunipress.bsky.social

This is a work in fabulosity - a unique approach to a market, written with nerve and with the talent of a wonderful group of authors!

Available now! Get it! ✨

Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment Digital platforms are underpinned by the ideal of a frictionless market, obscuring the simultaneous practices of market monopolisation and the restriction of consumer choice and movement. This conc...

Ecological frictions in the platform economy exposed!

The fruit of my wonderful collaboration with Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając is out in print in the @icsjournal.bsky.social special issue on platform capitalism’s frictions.

It's open access, see it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 The RN05 Sociology of Consumption mid-term conference call for papers is out! 📢 Have a look and join us in charting the consumption territories in Prague! 🗺️

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