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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)
Description: Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.In this episode, our co-hosts Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang discusses the book Platforms and Cultural Production (2021) by Thomas Poell, David B. Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy.Youâll hear about:
How this collaborative project came about, given each of the authors has distinct interests and disciplinary orientations;
Given the two keywords of âplatformsâ and âcultural production,â how did the authors make sense of these keywords in relation to broader processes of digital infrastructures and imaginaries;
How three key sections â social media, games, and journalism â were ide...