Earlier this month I presented an ongoing research project on the platformisation and deplatformisation of software development at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, AoIR2024. The project contributes to understanding the platformisation of cultural production by looking at how networked infrastructures commodify, configure and challenge relations between code, coders, communities, technologies, investors and industries. It also …
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GitHub as Transparency Device in Data Journalism, Open Data and Data Activism
At this year’s Digital Methods Summer School I am coordinating a research project on how journalists use GitHub, together with Jonathan Gray and Stefania Milan. This is part of a broader research collaboration with Erik Borra and Richard Rogers from the Digital Methods Initiative to expand the digital methods repertoire by developing tools and techniques for …
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