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Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

1/6 New article on how Spotify engages with East-Central Europe (ECE) and how platformization reinforces global inequalities. Based on the political economy of platforms and interviews with local "platform intermediaries" navigating algorithmic and geographic peripherality. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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Playlisting the periphery: Platform intermediaries and East-Central European music visibility in Spotify’s geography - Miloš Hroch, Petr Szczepanik, 2025

This article examines Spotify’s engagement with East-Central European (ECE) music markets, exploring how platformization intersects with peripherality. Using in...

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Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

1/5🎥🏭When platform capitalism meets local labor: A Prague perspective on global streaming production. My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇 #StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Pleased to announce that the SSHRC-supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project released two new reports today. one on media ownership & concentration in the United States, 1984-2023 & a 2nd on the Czech Republic covering 2019-2022. gmicp.org/media-owners... gmicp.org/communicatio... 1/

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Media ownership and concentration in the United States of America, 1984-2023

A report produced by the American research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project This report analyzes media concentration in the U.S. over the past 40 years, highlighting the shift ...

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