[Air-L] Platforms & Society, Articles published in 2025

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Hi AoIR,

As the year wraps up, check out the articles published by Platforms & Society in 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/pnsa/2
And consider submitting your article in 2026!

Platforms & Society
Volume 2, January-December 2025

Table of Contents

Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation
Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs

Multichannel networks in China's livestreaming industry: Failing industrial lore and limited intermediary roles amidst platformization
Zhen Ye

Disciplined autonomy: A failed platform-cooperativism initiative in Brazil
Walmir Estima, André Lemos

Online moving of Chinese boys’ love fans: A platform ecology perspective
Lin Zhang

State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft's data centres in Greece 2.0
Charis Papaevangelou, Eugenia Siapera

Platform imperialism and disinformation in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Olivier Jutel, Leon A. Salter

Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis
Batoul Al Mehdar, Sharon Geeling, Nagla Rizk, Funda Ustek Spilda, Eisha Afifi, Joseph Budu, Pitso Tsibolane, Richard Boateng, Hilda Mwakatumbula, Mark Graham, Richard Heeks

Navigating labour's labyrinth: Developing a typology of platform work in Sub-Saharan Africa
Adio-Adet Tichafara Dinika

Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr – How a tech company is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates
Maja-Lee Voigt

‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety
Paloma Viejo Otero, Rebecca Scharlach

‘Eyo, mixed girl check’: The commodification of embodied performance in the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok
Ana-Nzinga Weiß, Florian Primig, Hanna Dorottya Szabó

Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised multi-level marketing scheme
Jacob Ørmen, Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Linea Munk Petersen

The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones
Tom Divon, Moa Eriksson Krutrök

Prodexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain
Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan

Injustice by design: A critical technocultural discourse and Latina feminist analysis of Amazon's ACX audiobook labor platform
Ruth L. Nuñez

Labour super-exploitation in differential uberisation: A Latin American perspective on the platform economy
Federico De Stavola

Platforms and the governmentality of political consumerism: A critical analysis of review bombing and de/politicization on Steam
Andrew Wirzburger

The Amazonification of Royal Mail and postal worker identity
Jess Brand, Lina Dencik

Intermediation of lending: Platforms, mobile money, and data transactions in India
Rahul Mukherjee

>From platform governance to institutional practice: Experimentation, misalignment, and contingent adoption of Google Arts & Culture
T. Leo Cao

Surveil to protect and surveil to punish: Strategies to tackle sexual exploitation between national law and global corporate policies
Carmela Morgillo, Salomé Lannier

The incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan
Marc Steinberg

Data interoperability and the governance of public value
Linda Huber

Value through contribution systems
Ellie Rennie

Value from data? A decentralized approach
Kelsie Nabben

Comparing TikTok and Instagram's sociotechnical environments for cultural production
Alex Turvy

Golden shares in Chinese platforms: The state as news licensor and minority shareholder
Angela Xiao Wu

Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor
Nicholas Proferes, Kelley Cotter, Kjerstin Thorson, Ankolika De, Chia-Fang Chang, Ava Francesca Battocchio

Sex work as cross-platform self-branding. Challenges and strategies of OnlyFans’ content creators in a precarious ecosystem
Margherita Di Cicco, Davide Beraldo

A systemic framework for disinformation on social media platforms
Raquel Recuero

Algorithmic pedagogy: How Douyin constructs algorithmic imaginaries for content creators
Meng Liang, Linqi Ye

The politics of value: Platform economies in the ecological transition
Franziska Cooiman

Data or content? The conceptual battles defining dataset markets
Jake Goldenfein

Toward a platform–labor–territory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes
Jae-Young Elisabeth Lee

Worker power in self-organised networks: Algorithmic management, solidarity and resistance on platforms
Mohammad Amir Anwar

Value from digital twins
Mark Andrejevic, Zoe Elena Horn, Michael Richardson

Synthetic imaginaries of “sensitive” AI: On ambient amplification and jail(break)ing as method
Elena Pilipets, Marloes Geboers

Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy
Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg

Sociotechnical enveloping: Productization of APIs and the transnational expansion of Alipay+
Jing Wang

“Why can’t I just be fat and exist on the internet?”: The embeddedness of antifatness on TikTok
Kelley Cotter, Rebecca Jonas, Ankolika De

Coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Facebook? A typology of manufactured attention
Richard Rogers, Nicola Righett

Digital platform economies: Value from data?
Janet Roitman, Andrew Moon, Leila Lin

Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse
Mervi Pantti, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Elis Karell

How do multi-modal large language models understand non-English visual hate? Insights from studying hate speech in Chinese-speaking communities on Instagram
Jing Zeng, Qinghao Guan, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Xiran Liu

Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as cultural negotiations of platform governance
CJ Reynolds

A conversation on housing under platform capitalism: The contentious regulation of short-term rentals in European cities
Emanuele Sciuva, Mara Ferreri, Gianluca Bei, Francesca Artioli, Thomas Aguilera, Claire Colomb

>From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance
Paddy Leerssen

States and platform capitalisms: A conversation
Hatim El-Hibri, Joe F. Khalil, Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, Rahul Mukherjee

Redefining social media influencership through followership building
Muhammed Tobiloba Alakitan

Adaptive governance: How digital platforms change their design
Daniëlle Flonk Kevin Garvey

Platformized labour and harassment in Canada: Quantifying the effects of racism on content creators
Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra

Music streaming platforms and everyday musical lives: Dynamics of community, individualisation and personalisation in China
David Hesmondhalgh, Shuwen Qu

Regulating AI in the workplace: A critique of the EU AI act and the platform work directive through a worker-centred lens
Alexandros Minotakis

Digital rhythmanalysis: Studying memetic and affective rhythms on the post-viral Web
Sal Hagen, Daniël de Zeeuw, Tommaso Venturini

The vortex of visibility: Platformization and literary practices in an emerging economy
Rosie Nguyen

The Salesforce of safety: Software vendors as infrastructural/professional nodes in the field of online trust and safety
Lucas Wright

Ghost infrastructure: The political economy of abandoned submarine data cable projects
Sofie Flensburg, Signe Sophus La

Infrastructural platforms as producers of incremental innovation: Investigating software development in Amazon's Alexa Prize Competition
Niklas Strüver

Seeing (like) a platform: Using data rights for participatory study of platforms
Ana Pop Stefanija, Jo Pierson

Symbolic surplus: How recruitment strategies form workers’ social composition and protest in food delivery gig work
Heiner Heiland


The editors
Julie Yujie Chen
Rafael Grohmann
Andrea Pollio
Cheryll Soriano
Niels van Doorn




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dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>

Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/>

University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/>
Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/>

Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>

Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/>

Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/>

Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work>

Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>  <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>