Platforms and Cultural Production

Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam.David B. Nieborg is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto.Brooke Erin Duffy is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.

“The most impressive and illuminating research yet published on how digital platforms are reshaping the cultural industries.”David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds“The authors expertly explore the ways that platforms have produced opportunities and constraints for media creators. Their account is clear and engaging and will doubtlessly provide a foundation for many conversations about the role of platforms and culture in the coming decade.”Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology“[It] will be [a] valuable reference [book] for students in the field of media and cultural studies. [It] may also inspire researchers and practitioners in related fields to understand how culture is created and modulated on platforms, and how culture can be studied in the platform environment.”Media, Culture & Society"This is a very well written and engaging book which clearly lays out thecritical issues of platform based cultural production. It is essential reading for any re-searchers and students interested in the politics of platforms and social media, con-temporary cultural production and the role of platforms in consumer culture."Journal of Consumer Culture"Platforms and Cultural Production provides a solid introductory overview of the growing tendency towards platformization in cultural creation, at both the infrastructural and cultural levels. Approachably presented, this work will be of interest to all levels of university students and researchers interested in platform studies. This book is a thoroughly researched and persuasive portrait of how new media technologies in the cultural industries constitute extensions of—rather than ruptures with—traditional legacy media apparatuses." Canadian Journal of Communication “The book… is a must-read for faculty and students working in platform studies, internet studies, or the social study of platform societies or platform labour. However, the book will be of great use to anyone beyond these academic fields who needs to understand how the broader contours of social and cultural life are shifting in relation to platform power and digital forms of inequality. Platforms and Cultural Production should be read widely by institutional leaders and policy makers as the issues raised by the book require public discussion and debate.”International Journal of Culture Policy

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Institutional changeChapter 2: MarketsChapter 3: InfrastructureChapter 4: Governance Part 2: Shifting cultural practicesChapter 5: LaborChapter 6: Creativity Chapter 7: DemocracyChapter 8: Power NotesReferencesIndex