Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook
Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook
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DOI：
10.1177/1461444816661553
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发表时间：
2018-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
J. Plantin;C. Lagoze;P. N. Edwards;Christian Sandvig
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作者：
J. Plantin;C. Lagoze;P. N. Edwards;Christian Sandvig
最近出现了两种理论方法来描述媒体景观中新的数字研究对象：基础设施研究和平台研究。尽管它们有各自的起源和不同的特征，但我们在本文中展示了这两种观点的交叉表达如何提高我们对当前数字媒体的理解。我们使用的开放网络，Facebook和谷歌的案例研究表明，基础设施的研究提供了一个有价值的方法，共享的，广泛访问的系统和服务的类型，通常提供或政府监管的公共利益的演变。另一方面，平台研究捕捉了新的数字系统和新媒体如何启用和限制沟通和表达。在这些环境中，基于平台的服务获得了基础设施的特征，而新的和现有的基础设施都是在平台的逻辑上构建或重组的。最后，我们强调这种组合框架的潜力，为未来的案例研究。
Two theoretical approaches have recently emerged to characterize new digital objects of study in the media landscape: infrastructure studies and platform studies. Despite their separate origins and different features, we demonstrate in this article how the cross-articulation of these two perspectives improves our understanding of current digital media. We use case studies of the Open Web, Facebook, and Google to demonstrate that infrastructure studies provides a valuable approach to the evolution of shared, widely accessible systems and services of the type often provided or regulated by governments in the public interest. On the other hand, platform studies captures how communication and expression are both enabled and constrained by new digital systems and new media. In these environments, platform-based services acquire characteristics of infrastructure, while both new and existing infrastructures are built or reorganized on the logic of platforms. We conclude by underlining the potential of this combined framework for future case studies.