Seitz, Tatjana
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Publication Access status: Open Access , In the spirit of addition: taking a 'Practice+' approach to studying mediaThis collection of articles considers the possibility of taking an “additive” approach to studying media, which the con- tributors to the collection refer to as a “practice+” approach. In this spirit the collection attempts to establish novel connections that potentially bring new life to the study of practice, by explo- ring new concepts, thinkers, energies, methodologies, and disci- plinary traditions. These additional engagements, it is argued, are intended to augment and supplement (rather than displace or replace) popular practice approaches offered through, and found within, ethnomethodology, organizational studies, workplace studies and similar. The articles explore how practices are vari- ously constituted in, and through, contemporary media such as video platforms, collaborative text editors, enterprise software, social media APIs, automotive navigation systems, and health data apps. In these cases not only does one find a welter of va- ried, interconnected, multi-scalar, differentially located practices but in the process of their articulation, one also discovers new vocabularies with which to document and articulate them. The contributions, thus, gesture towards how relations between me- dia and their practices can be alternatively and fruitfully approa- ched, evidencing new lines of thinking and doing in the study of practice.Source Type:BookSeries:Working paper series / SFB 1187 Medien der KooperationVolume number:184 15 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , The technicity of platform governance: structure and evolution of Facebook’s APIsResearchers, policymakers, and competition and regulation authorities worldwide recognise application pro- gramming interfaces (APIs) for powering the digital economy and driving processes of datafication and platformisation. However, it is unclear how APIs tie into the power of, and gov- ernance by, large digital platforms. This article traces the rela- tionality between Facebook’s APIs, platform governance, and data strategy based on an empirical and evolutionary analy- sis. It examines a large corpus of (archived) developer pages and API reference documentation to determine the technicity of platform governance – the technical dimension and dynam- ics of how and what platforms like Facebook seek to govern. It traces how Facebook Platform evolved into a complex layered and interconnected governance arrangement, wherein techni- cal API specifications serve to enforce (changes to) platform policy and (data) strategy. Finally, the article discusses the significance of this technicity in specifying the material condi- tions for app and business development ‘on top of’ platforms and for maintaining infrastructural and evolutive power over their ecosystems.Source Type:BookSeries:Working paper series / SFB 1187 Medien der KooperationVolume number:203 51
