Platforms of power
            <b>Custodians of the Internet</b>
            <i>Tarleton Gillespie</i>
            Yale University Press, 2018. 296 pp.

Hoffmann, Anna Lauren

doi:10.1126/science.aat8179

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Mediated interaction in the digital age

Thompson

2018

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In The media and modernity, Thompson develops an interactional theory of communication media that distinguishes between three basic types of interaction: 1) face-to-face interaction, 2) mediated interaction, and 3) mediated quasi-interaction. In the light of the digital revolution and the growth of the internet, this paper introduces a fourth type: mediated online interaction. Drawing on Goffman’s distinction between front regions and back regions, Thompson shows how mediated quasi-interaction and mediated online interaction create new opportunities for the leakage of information and symbolic content from back regions into front regions, with consequences that can be embarrassing, damaging and, on occasion, hugely disruptive.

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2018

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Rise of Platform Imperialism in the Networked Korean Society: A Critical Analysis of the Corporate Sphere

Jin

2017

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By employing political economy as an analytical framework, focusing on power relations between global forces and local forces in the realm of digital platforms, this study aims to develop a critical analysis of Korea’s platform technologies. It first identifies the major characteristics that signal the growth of digital platforms as a corporate sphere in which their operation is greatly defined by market forces. Then, it analyzes the nature of the development of local digital platforms in order to determine whether locally made digital platforms have controlled their own market and expanded in global markets. Finally, it investigates the ways in which us-based digital platforms have dominated or influenced the local market, constructing a new form of imperialism, which this article calls ‘platform imperialism’. For this reason, this study not only examines hardware architecture but also pays close attention to the commercial and cultural values embedded in digital platforms.

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