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@darius hi Darius. My work has broadly* been dealing with these issues for a number of years, but I tend to think about it in relationship to protocol as opposed to platform.

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This may be interesting:

From Scalability to Subsidiarity in Addressing Online Harm

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051221126041

@darius This paper on SSB is quite technical, some of the stuff on identity might be of interest https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2019/proceedings/icn19-19.pdf

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I'm doing a thesis at the moment on the discordant consequences of having our digital social spaces be informed by corporate interests

And as far as I'm aware, the field is only just tentatively beginning to explore decentralized networks as something distinct from other more-traditional platforms

@darius I'm working on a long essay/short book that argues that federated social media is an example of emergent federating practices that we can track to online and offline spaces (labor organizing but also other examples of solidarity organizations). Not published yet but happy to share.

@darius But I also think the comments here about protocols (rather than platforms) is the key hinge point between federates social media and media studies. Galloway's Protocol and Galloway and Thacker's The Exploit would be two places to go.

@darius I think the most developed analytical work has been done in Poell et al’s Platforms and Cultural Production. Because so much of the definition is about commodification and markets I think decentralized networks don’t, right now, fit into it.

@darius I think @tpoell, Anne Helmond (@silvertje on twitter) or Fernando van der Vlist (@fvandervlist) might be able to help you and could be interested in this question.