Platform values
An introduction to the #AoIR16 special issue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20507872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Koen Leurs (0000-0003-4765-6464, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Michael Zimmer (0000-0003-4229-4847, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 803-808 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Communication & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369118x.2017.1295464 |
| OpenAlex | W2604032944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 5 |
Marking a decade of exciting interdisciplinary internet research, this is the 10th Information, Communication and Society special issue that features research generated by the annual Association of Internet Research (AoIR) conferences. This issue consists of eight provocative articles selected from #AoIR2016, the 17th annual conference, held at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany from 5–8 October 2016. The #AoIR2016 conference theme Internet Rules! invited participants to address the complex interplay of digital technologies, business models and user practices. For some, the Internet rules! Others are ruled by the internet. Reflecting the emergent focus during the conference, this special issue addresses the Internet as a set of connected platforms that have various technical, social, cultural, political and figurative meanings, and seeks to understand rules as a set of normative values. Offering a primer on platform values, the contributions share a commitment to social justice, offer innovative theoretical interventions and empirically ground the workings of platform values from various scholarly perspectives. They show how normative digitally networked technologies are mutually shaped by top-down decisions such as the profit-oriented workings of algorithms that differentially value some users over others and bottom-up user practices that both sustain and subvert value-laden mechanisms
Internet privacy · Literal and figurative language · Media studies · Normative · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Digital Platforms and Economics · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |