An increasingly influential strand of research on social media relies on the concept of
affordances to account for effects. However, hindering the possibility of a unified theory of …

The need to virtually collaborate across distributed locations has drastically increased.
Developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and new IT platforms like the metaverse …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

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 …

This article contextualises, defines, and operationalises the concept of platformisation.
Drawing insights from different scholarly perspectives on platforms—software studies, critical …

Following a host of high-profile scandals, the political influence of platform companies (the
global corporations that that operate online 'platforms' such as Facebook, WhatsApp …

Although images have always been part of politics, research on the visual aspects of
political communication recently gained momentum, especially with the spread of social …

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of
machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of …

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 …

To capture audiences' attention on social media, news outlets may disseminate journalistic
content in line with platform instead of mass media logics, indicating a platformization of …