In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, European countries implemented several
non-pharmaceutical interventions with country-specific policies and reduced coordination …

This essay explores how desiloization strategies facilitate the emergence and increasing
centralization of private platform power, rather than flattening and democratizing access to …

This is the second of three reports on economic geography. It focuses on research that
addresses issues deemed to be both urgent and generative of crisis. This report focuses on …

In this article we address the question 'what is tracking in the mobile ecosystem'through a
comprehensive overview of the Software Development Kit (SDK). Our research reveals a …

'Super apps' are on the rise. This study explores the characteristics, origins, and
manifestations of these apps worldwide, presenting the concept of 'super-appification'to …

This article discusses how we can locate and understand infrastructural power in mobile
infrastructures for datafication through dissecting third-party tracking via so-called software …

'Digital methods' turn to medium-specific and online avenues for social and cultural
research. While these approaches foster empirical media studies, it has become …

Warning and emergency apps are an integral part of crisis informatics and particularly
relevant in countries that currently do not have cell broadcast, such as Germany. Previous …

This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Kritik der Digitalität by Jan
Distelmeyer, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature …

This paper articulates the emergence of the user-citizen as a result of techno-solutionist
approaches to pandemic management by tracing the rapid infrastructuralisation of …