Studying Platforms and Cultural Production: Methods, Institutions, and Practices

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Abstract

This introduction to the second special collection of articles on the platformization of the cultural industries foregrounds research methods and practices. Drawing from the 12 articles included in this collection, as well as the 14 articles published in the first collection, we identify commonalities in approaches, consistencies in traditions, and uniform modes of analysis. We argue that approaches that have been deployed in media industry studies for decades—semi-structured interviews, discourse analysis, content analysis, and participant observation—remain productive. At the same time, transformations in the temporalities and curation of cultural production require updated modes of investigation and analysis. As such, we spotlight contributors’ novel methods and innovative theoretical approaches, such as the walkthrough method and multi-sided market theory.

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Nieborg, D. B., Duffy, B. E., & Poell, T. (2020). Studying Platforms and Cultural Production: Methods, Institutions, and Practices. Social Media and Society, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120943273

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