Dear colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to the conference track
<br>we are organizing at the next STS Italia conference in Trieste
<br> (June 18-20, 2020),
<br>titled:
<br>
<br>Platforms and infrastructures in media and cultural industries
<br>
<br>In the last few years, major changes in cultural industries and content
<br>distribution have been moulded around the affordances coming from media
<br>platforms and digital infrastructures. The broad role of platforms in
<br>today’s society has been addressed by pointing out that they are not just
<br>neutral carriers or facilitators, but rather distinctive socio- technical
<br>entities, able (among other things) to create new relationships, produce
<br>inequalities, modify professional jobs and consumer practices (Gillespie,
<br>2018; van Dijck et al. 2018) and even to reshape cultural content’s
<br>aesthetic.
<br>
<br>The role of platforms in cultural industries (from Spotify, Netflix and
<br>YouTube to those focused on ebooks, videogames photo sharing and newsmaking)
<br>has been addressed in STS and media studies by looking at their
<br>infrastructural dimensions (Parks, Starosielski, 2015; Sterne 2012; Peters,
<br>2015). A specific emphasis has been put on the mutual interactions between
<br>platforms and their infrastructural qualities, especially by looking at the
<br>convergence between the internet-based infrastructural services and the
<br>emerging role of different platforms in media and communication, thus
<br>outlining the ongoing process of “platformization”, intended as a crucial
<br>structural shift in how value, meanings and practices are today created in
<br>cultural industries (Plantin et al. 2018; Nieborg & Poell 2018; Plantin, &
<br>Punathambekar, 2019).
<br>
<br>The track has the aim of collecting contributions able to investigate these
<br>emerging trends in the role of platforms and infrastructures in cultural
<br>industries, addressing different issues and perspectives related to the
<br>increasingly important role of media platforms for the circulation of
<br>different kinds of cultural contents, including music, video, photos, books,
<br>news, videogames, etc. We therefore encourage both researchers and cultural
<br>industry practitioners from different areas (media studies, S&TS, film
<br>studies, digital humanities, media anthropology, science communication, etc.)
<br>to submit theoretically, empirically, and/or methodologically oriented papers
<br>exploring some of the following issues:
<br>
<br>− The role of platforms in reshaping different sectors of cultural
<br>industries
<br>
<br>− The notion of ‘platformization’ in relation to the circulation of
<br>culture
<br>
<br>− Infrastructure studies and the circulation of cultural contents
<br>
<br>− Inequalities, vulnerabilities and public values in platforms and
<br>infrastructures
<br>
<br>− Algorithms and automated system of content suggestions
<br>
<br>− The political economy of platforms in cultural production and
<br>distribution
<br>
<br>− The role of platforms in shaping the aesthetics of music, videos, books,
<br>news and other cultural contents
<br>
<br>− Users’ practices and the cultural consumption through platforms.
<br>
<br>− The shifting roles of professionals and workers in cultural industries
<br>platforms
<br>
<br>− The integration of cultural contents within social media and other
<br>mainstream platforms
<br>
<br>− Interfaces of and interactions with digital platforms
<br>
<br>
<br>Here the full call:
<br>https://a7f67c59-118d-44bf-9b5c-7aae7deef875.filesusr.com/ugd/8486e6_d3f364fc
<br>83dd42b1b1aa0b7e05d36ba4.pdf
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Thanks!
<br>
<br>Tiziano Bonini (University of Siena)
<br>Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova)
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