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 …

Is culture considered to be our past, our roots, ancient ruins, or an old piece of art? Culture is
all the factors that define who we are, how we act and interact in our world, in our daily …

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far
removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their experience and allows us to …

A dominant way for digital platforms to generate revenue has been through the sale of
audiences to advertisers encapsulated by the idea of the attention economy. This model has …

In many creator economy platforms, algorithms significantly impact creators' practices and
decisions about their creative expression and monetization. Emerging research suggests …

This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content
analysis of 144 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright …

While workers of all stripes are compelled to embrace uncertainty under conditions of
neoliberalism, ideologies of risk assume a particular guise in the platform economy, wherein …

This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a
general theoretical framework and a series of methodological procedures to support the …

Blockchains have inspired imaginaries of a new iteration of the internet, hailed as Web3,
where the power of centralized platform companies would be limited and the ownership of …

Purpose This study explores the key platform affordances that online social platform
providers need to offer digital creators to strengthen the creator ecosystem, one of the …