Impact of digital twins and metaverse on cities: History, current situation, and application perspectives

Z Lv, WL Shang, M Guizani - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
To promote the expansion and adoption of Digital Twins (DTs) in Smart Cities (SCs), a
detailed review of the impact of DTs and digitalization on cities is made to assess the …

[图书][B] Platforms and cultural production

T Poell, DB Nieborg, BE Duffy - 2021 - books.google.com
The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance

J Van Dijck - New Media & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The complexities of platforms are increasingly at odds with the narrow legal and economic
concepts in which their governance is grounded. This article aims to analyze platformization …

Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok: Transformation, power relationships, and platformization of video entertainment in China

Z Zhang - Media, Culture & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The article contributes to complicate the issue of 'infrastructuralization of platform'through an
empirical study on China's video streaming platform, Tik Tok. It aims at exploring how video …

[图书][B] TikTok: Creativity and culture in short video

DBV Kaye, J Zeng, P Wikstrom - 2022 - books.google.com
Since its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing
platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream …

[图书][B] Regulating platforms

T Flew - 2021 - books.google.com
We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become
increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global …

[图书][B] The global smartphone: Beyond a youth technology

D Miller, L Abed Rabho, P Awondo, M de Vries… - 2021 - library.oapen.org
The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know
what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in …

Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and US–China power competition

Y Huang, M Mayer - Policy & Internet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of digital currencies challenges practices of monetary sovereignty and impacts the
international monetary order. Drawing on recent IPE debates about the public‐private nature …

Algorithmic management in the platform economy

D Stark, I Pais - Sociologica, 2020 - sociologica.unibo.it
The platform model is the distinguishing organizational form of the early decades of the
twenty-first century. Whereas actors in markets contract, hierarchies command, and networks …

#PositiveEnergy Douyin: constructing “playful patriotism” in a Chinese short-video application

X Chen, DB Valdovinos Kaye, J Zeng - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In Chinese political discourse,“positive energy”(zheng nengliang) is a popular expression
that has embodied mainstream political ideology in China since 2012. This term has also …