Engaging Platforms in Open Scholarship

Brittany Amell, Graham Jensen, Alan Colin-Arce, Randa El Khatib, Caroline Winter, Alyssa Arbuckle, Faraz Forghan Parast, and Ray Siemens

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Rise of Platforms

• What is a Platform?
• About the Annotated Bibliography
  • Overview of Sections
• Platforms Forever?
• References

Understanding Platforms

• Groundings, Foundations, and Introductory Texts
• Infrastructures Meet Platforms (and vice versa)

Researching Platforms and Digital Environments

• Tools, Methods, and Approaches
• Ethical Considerations

Social Implications of Platforms

• Critical Perspectives: Power, Platformization, and Labour
• Thinking Through Sustainability
• Privacy and Surveillance
• Platforms and the Limits of Free Speech

Models and Mechanisms of Platform Governance and Regulation

• Approaches to Platform Governance
• Misinformation as Platform Governance Issue

Alternative Models and Approaches

• Platform Cooperatives, Digital Commons, and Knowledge Infrastructures
• Knowledge Production, Archives, and Digital Sustainability