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Pawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Now out! My and @kvasudevan.bsky.social's new edited book, featuring stellar contributions grappling with the politics of digital platforms expanding and attempting to reshape politics, economics, and social relations in their extractive image. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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Platforms, Power, and Friction | Pawel Popiel, Krishnan Vasudevan | Ta

This edited book deconstructs the myth of frictionless digital platform expansion, revealing the persistent "platform frictions" that shape platform economies

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Mikko Laamanen @mikkolaamanen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Presenting Algorithmic Luddism or how refusal, resistance and reimagination is possible in algorithmic systems and societies! A fruit of collaboration with @vasichar.bsky.social and @tuukka.bsky.social @sifoforsk.bsky.social

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Mikko Laamanen @mikkolaamanen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

✨ Celebration, publication! ✨ Glitter and be gay! ✨ ✨ Our edited book "Drag as Marketplace" is out today on @brisunipress.bsky.social This is a work in fabulosity - a unique approach to a market, written with nerve and with the talent of a wonderful group of authors! Available now! Get it! ✨

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Mikko Laamanen @mikkolaamanen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Ecological frictions in the platform economy exposed! The fruit of my wonderful collaboration with Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając is out in print in the @icsjournal.bsky.social special issue on platform capitalism’s frictions. It's open access, see it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment

Digital platforms are underpinned by the ideal of a frictionless market, obscuring the simultaneous practices of market monopolisation and the restriction of consumer choice and movement. This conc...

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Mikko Laamanen @mikkolaamanen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

📢 The RN05 Sociology of Consumption mid-term conference call for papers is out! 📢 Have a look and join us in charting the consumption territories in Prague! 🗺️ consumption2025.fhs.cuni.cz

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