Platforms and hyper-choice on the World Wide Web
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tiffany Graham (0000-0002-4053-9313, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Big Data & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2053951718765878 |
| OpenAlex | W2789772081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 30 |
Choice is a sine qua non of contemporary life. From childhood until death, we are faced with an unending series of choices through which we cultivate a sense of self, govern conduct, and shape the future. Nowadays, individuals increasingly experience and enact consumer choice online through web-based platforms such as Yelp.com , TripAdvisor.com and Amazon.com . These platforms not only provide a sprawling array of goods and services to choose from, but also reviews, ratings and ranking devices and systems of classification to navigate this landscape of choice. This paper suggests a radical reconsideration of platform architectures and design features to consider how they reconfigure and respecify choice, 'choosers', and choice-making practices. Platforms are not simply cameras that present choice and enable comparisons between different options, but are more akin to engines that govern, drive and expand choice, configuring users within particular discourses, practices and subjectivities. In making sense of the entangled trajectories of consumer choice, platform architectures and Big Data, I suggest that 'hyper-choice' emerges as a condition of the contemporary platform-driven web. I examine hyper-choice not only in terms of the relationship between platforms and a growing abundance of choice, but more importantly how platforms reconfigure choice in ways that go beyond and fundamentally challenge existing understandings of what choice is, who and what is involved in producing knowledge about choice, and what it means to be a 'chooser
Business · Consumer choice · Data science · Internet privacy · Political science · Sine qua non · Sociology · World Wide Web · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Marketing
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An Engine, Not a Camera
Tough Choices
The Subject and Power
Powers of Freedom
Reconfiguring relations of accountability
Reassembling the Social
Prosumer Capitalism
Heteromation and its (dis)contents
Six degrees of reputation
Production, Consumption, Prosumption
Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook
The “New” World of Prosumption
Critics, Ratings, and Society
The politics of 'platforms
Algorithms, Governance, and Governmentality
Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |