Background: The COVID-19 pandemic increased attention to digital tools to support
governmental public health policies in East and South-East Asia. Mobile apps related to the …

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 …

Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these
debates still tend to be driven by high-profile incidents and to focus on the largest, US based …

As consumer cultures become increasingly digital and the digital/data has become more
commodified, geographers have turned their attention to researching the ways in which …

Tracing global shifts in ownership and conglomeration in the media and technology sectors,
this introduction analyzes the emergence of the 'megacorp'and 'super app'as distinct forms …

The rise of super apps has attracted scholarly attention across different disciplines.
Integrating the theories of service extension and status quo bias into a three-component …

Aiming to enrich the conceptual vocabulary of platform and app studies, this article provides
a critical political economic perspective on the media industry to understand how platform …

We examine how TikTok expanded into the South Korean landscape by utilizing K-pop as a
vehicle, thus demonstrating the theory of 'platformed glocalization'. After several failed …

Since the rise of the smartphone, apps have become entrenched in billions of users' daily
lives. Accessible across phones and tablets, watches and wearables, connected cars …

This article uses a comparative case study of two ride-hailing platforms—DiDi Chuxing in
China and Uber in the United States—to explore the comparative politics of platform power …