Mobile Platforms and Ecosystems

Computing the everyday: Social media as data platforms

“…There are several strong undertones the concept carries including those of complexity (differentiation of components and their links) and evolvability (Baldwin and Woodard 2009). The concept has, no doubt, been used with different meaning across such diverse fields as industrial economics, design science, sociology and information systems (Baldwin and Clark 2000;Bowker 2005;Gawer 2009;Hanseth 2000;Sørensen, De Reuver and Basole 2015). But it seems to us that a common theme underlying the approach to social media as platforms is the delineation of the role platforms assume in shaping the communication and interaction fabric of everyday life.…”

Co-creation and Fine-Tuning of Boundary Resources in Small-Scale Platformization

“…Hence, the architectural leverage was not yet achieved, as the tension between the communication of knowledge and the commodification of knowledge was not considered carefully [3], [20], [21]. How knowledge is produced and how skills are being trained for the purpose of platform building was one such important aspect in the context of this case.…”

“…A growing body of literature concerns research regarding mobile-and softwarebased platforms where the main focus is on platforms as two-sided markets [3,6,7,12,13]. Much insight can be gained from studying this body of work, the successful platforms with a significant digital element tends to fall into the category of two-or multi-sided markets where the platform brings parties together in open co-creation arrangements [14].…”

“…While research on mobile platforms in general has been the subject of research through the past decade and a half [1,2] the recent explosive growth of smartphone apps on Apple and Google's app stores, along with a number of other notable examples, has elevated the issue of software and smartphone app platforms within the academic discourse. The iOS and Android app stores have jointly generated a total of 3 million different apps representing the development of around 150 billion lines of code since 2008 [3]. Apple alone has paid out $25 billion to its developer community the first six and a half years [4].…”

From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas

“…Nowadays, the mobile platform, with its advantages of low cost, portability, and connectivity, is believed to give a great chance to narrow all political, social participation and economic divide and achieve related social inclusion [23,24]. Through connecting multi-actors and integrating different resources [18,19], the mobile platform can enhance transactional efficiency [25], facilitate interactions [26] and promote community building [27].…”