TikTok is the international twin of China's mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the
fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance …

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In the current research on media and communication, Western internet companies (eg
Google and Facebook) are typically described as digital platforms, yet these actors …

The article proposes to consider the COVID-19 global pandemic as new major development
for cultural industries and policies and to highlight timely and crucial trends due to the …

The emergence of digital platforms has attracted considerable scholarly attention among
media theorists. Yet, much of this scholarship has taken Western platforms such as …

While recent platform theory within media and communication studies has been developed
around US-based examples, platformization has taken a rather different path in China …

This article situates China's efforts to toughen the regulation of its tech companies since the
late 2010s in the global context of Big Techs rein-in and the specific trajectory of economic …

Researchers search for factors explaining the disruptive impact of labour platforms on work,
yet very few studies explore how platforms approach product markets and the resultant …

We examine and compare data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile
applications and their international versions: Baidu, Toutiao and its international version …

Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social
phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods–techniques exclusively …