Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the latest issue of the open access journal
Culture Machine. For more details about the issue and the journal please
see below.
Best,
Gary
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CULTURE MACHINE 14 (2013)
http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/current
PLATFORM POLITICS
edited by Joss Hands, Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois
Given the recent revelations about the collection of private data from
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Skype, and YouTube by the NSA and
GCHQ as well as the current debate over Twitter trolls, it seems
important to consider how digital platforms can be understood, leveraged
and contested in an age when the ‘platform’ is coming to supplant the
open web as the default digital environment.
Platforms can be characterized as resting on already existing networked
communication systems, but also as developing discreet spaces and
affordances, often using ‘apps’ to circumvent any need to access them
via the Internet or web. The contributions to this issue investigate the
nature and distinctive aspects of the ‘platform’: as more than just a
neutral space of communication; and as a complex technology with
distinct affordances that have powerful political, economic and social
interests at stake. In this respect the platform is regarded as a zone
of contestation between different configurations of capital, social
movements, new kinds of activist networks, and open source and
proprietary software design. Platforms also constitute spaces of
struggle between mass movements and governments, users and the
extractors of value, visibility and invisibility.
The platform, then, does not just represent a question of software and
control. It also connects to wider social struggles: a ‘political
platform’ can frame political discourse more generally. Accordingly,
this special issue of Culture Machine considers platform politics as a
distinct new context of power operating at the intersection of
technological development, software design, cognitive/communicative
capitalism, new forms of social movement and resistance, and the
attempts to contain them by the existing democracies.
Contents
Joss Hands, Introduction: Politics, Power and ‘Platformativity’
Ganaele Langlois, Greg Elmer, The Research Politics of Social Media
Platformss
Neal Thomas, Social Computing as a Platform for Memory
Paul Caplan, Software Tunnels Through the Rags 'n Refuse: Object
Oriented Software Studies and Platform Politics
Harry Halpin, Immaterial Civil War: The World Wide War on the Web
Eugenia Siapera, Platform Infomediation and Journalism
Joss Hands, Platform Communism
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Red Plenty Platforms
Tim Jordan, Information as Politics
Tero Karppi, Death Proof: On the Biopolitics and Noopolitics of
Memorializing Dead Facebook Users
Jussi Parikka, Critically Engineered Wireless Politics
Cornelia Sollfrank, Giving What you Don’t Have: Interviews with Sean
Dockray and Dmytri Kleiner
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ABOUT CULTURE MACHINE
Established in 1999 and edited by Clare Birchall, Dave Boothroyd, Gary
Hall and Joanna Zylinska, with Rafico Ruiz as Reviews Editor, the
Culture Machine journal publishes new work from both established figures
and up-and-coming writers. It is fully refereed and has an International
Advisory Board which includes Geoffrey Bennington, Robert Bernasconi,
Sue Golding, Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan
Morris, Paul Patton, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle and Kenneth Surin.
Culture Machine <http://www.culturemachine.net> is part of Open
Humanities Press:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
*** See our sister projects ***
Culture Machine Live – a podcast series dedicated to discussions of
culture, theory and new media
http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/
Photomediations Machine - a curated online space where the dynamic
relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can
be encountered, experienced and engaged
http://www.photomediationsmachine.net/
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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/
Visiting Professor, Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University
http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/forschung-projekte/alle/hybrid-publishing-lab.html
Website http://www.garyhall.info
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