The aim of the workshop is to expand current platform scholarship by asking how platforms operate, enable or are entangled in “boundary infrastructures”, a term first introduced by Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey Bowker. “Boundary infrastructures” provide the usually invisible categorization schemes, filters, standards and calculative practices, which allow practices to operate across larger levels of scale. Rather than fixing its meaning beforehand, we see “boundary infrastructures” as a term offering creative leeway and opportunities for experimental thought for platform and media studies and our aim is to stimulate an open discussion (for more information see the linked outline paper).
The workshop will follow a discussion intensive format involving a range of scholars from different disciplinary perspectives.
Confirmed Speakers / Discussants
- Andreas Birkbak
- Marcus Burkhardt
- Elizabeth van Couvering
- Jonathan Gray
- Anne Helmond
- Stefania Milan
- Jean-Christophe Plantin
- Dave Randall
- Peter Tolmie
Venue
Campus Herrengarten
Raum AH 217/18 und AH 210/11
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Program
Thursday, November 2
All Things Boundary? Objects, Infrastructures, Publics
On Boundary Publics
Mundo Yang/Sebastian Gießmann/Wolfgang Reißmann (Siegen)
Response from a Platform Studies Point of View
Carolin Gerlitz (Siegen):
Accounting for Value(s): Facebook Revisited
Visual Boundary Infrastructures: Audience Visualisations as Platform Co-ordination Mechanisms
Elizabeth van Couvering (Karlstad)
Re-embedded Participation? Inquiring the Political Work of Facebook’s Algorithmic Standardizations
Andreas Birkbak (Copenhagen)
Coffee
Setting Up Boundary Infrastructures: Practice, Iteration and Reflexivity
Moving to the Digital: Some Problems and Pitfalls
Dave Randall (Siegen)
The Situated Crafting of a Platform for Coordination in Breast Cancer Care
Peter Tolmie (Siegen)
Intersections Between STS and Platform Studies
The Question of Power in Platform Studies and Infrastructure Studies
Jean-Christophe Plantin (LSE London)
Wrapping Up
Conference Dinner
Friday, November 3
Data Activism and Politics
tba
Stefania Milan (Amsterdam)
Between the Worlds: Infrastructures, Standards and Platforms of Fiscal Data
Jonathan Gray (King’s College London)
Coffee
Databases and Platforms
Databases as/versus Boundary Infrastructures: Reflections from the Early Histories of Digital Information Systems
Marcus Burkhardt (Siegen)
Platform Boundary Resources and Strategic Permeability
Anne Helmond (Amsterdam)/Fernando van der Vlist (Siegen/Amsterdam)
Wrapping Up/Panel Discussion with all Presenters
Lunch
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