How are platforms changing our culture? Zhen Ye, PhD candidate at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), recently published a review essay: When we talk about platforms and culture, what are we talking about?
In this essay, two recently published books, Platforms and Cultural Production, by Thomas Poell, David Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy, and Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures, by Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield, and Crystal Abidin, are reviewed.
By placing these two books in dialog with each other, Zhen aims to explore two ways to understand and analyse culture in the context of platform society. Firstly, culture can be understood as cultural commodities that are produced and consumed in a platform environment. Secondly, various social groups make use of platforms in distinct ways, and cultures emerge from these creative practices.
The publication is available via https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211071052
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