Routledge Handbook of Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence

The Routledge Handbook of Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence explores the evolution of digital platforms and AI in the global sphere and examines the competitive position and prospects of local digital platforms.This cutting-edge volume, comprising 26 chapters, brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide multi-faceted and comparative insights into how digital platforms and AI operate within different political, economic, and cultural contexts. Together, the collection provides an empirically rich analysis of platform studies in terms of histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to global media and delves into the rapidly changing media ecology surrounding digital platforms, the primary actors in developing and using AI and big data. It specifically interrogates the history of digital platforms and explores how they have influenced global cultural production in broad international and comparative contexts, addressing key political, economic, cultural, and technological issues relative to digital platforms, such as platform capitalism, platform imperialism, platformization, platform regulation, and global corporate media ownership.An essential resource for students, researchers and scholars of media, communication, cultural studies, looking to better understand the global stakes and local specificities of platformized societies and AI driven digital media industries.