The article outlines and discusses the methodological conditions for studying software development kits as an empirical entry point to research on mobile infrastructures for datafication.

This paper demonstrates how gig platforms can become both a resource for risk management and a new source of risk, depending on the complex interaction between a platform’s labour management strategies on the one hand and the mix of support structures and dependencies in a worker’s life on the other.

This paper empirically explores how AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud strategically attempt to operationalise infrastructural power in AI development and implementation through their ecosystems for cloud AI.

Despite few formal opportunities to participate in platform governance, social media creators use public callouts to shape community norms and place pressure on the platform.

The paper contributes to the further development of platform studies by looking at the early stages of development. It draws on insights from an exemplary research and innovation project that aimed to develop a "diversity-aware online social platform".

Retail trading platforms exemplify how platforms obfuscate conflicts of interest in their brokerage operations.

This article critically interrogates the increasing importance of connectivity protocols for how they shape and prefigure dynamics of platform power, as dominant actors in the tech sector collaborate on the issue of smart home and Internet of Things interoperability in efforts to maintain their market power and demonstrate their ability to regulate themselves.

We investigate whether platform companies disrupt local regulations by analysing how cities respond to platform companies and the extent to which they concede to and accommodate them.

We develop an approach to observe the algorithmically-tuned nature of digital advertising by creating visualisations of ad sequences from a citizen scientist data-donation project.