Platforms, programmability, and precarity: The platformization of research repositories in academic libraries
#AcademicLibraries #AndreaThomer #JeanChristophePlantin #OpenRepositories #platformization #ScientificCommunication
#platformization
IBM's latest research validates our long-standing position: security platformization works, but MSSPs need the right approach to truly benefit.
> Organizations with platforms took 72 fewer days to detect incidents and saw ROI four times better than non-adopters.
> MSSPs need more flexibility to secure multiple client environments, higher visibility standards, and the ability to scale deployments quickly.
> The "Salesforce for cyber" approach lacks customizability and is often provided by potential competitors to MSSPs.
> Our SecOps Cloud Platform offers the same consolidation benefits plus flexibility, visibility, control, and freedom—without vendor competition.
Learn how MSSPs can benefit from platformization: https://limacharlie.io/blog/mssp-and-the-ibm-platformization-report
Be very aware of victimhood games in politics. Always ask Who claims to be the victim, who profits and who loses, who is the 'aggressor?
We are facing an attempt of "platformization" of victimhood in a Muskian way. In all the world the real victims of injustice wll be painted as aggressors.
#musk #victim #victimhood #Politics #platformization
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/how-the-right-weaponizes-victimhood/
Insightful
@REA_research @EU_Commission #HQ #expert #evaluator review meeting in #Brussels #PolicyMaking #Platformization #UserExperience #AI #Scenarios #DigitalSystems #ScientificAdvice #DataAnalytics with #stakeholders from #Norway #Sweden #Germany #Finland #HorizonEurope
Interesting PhD position at the University of Utrecht, to do research on public education, Big Tech and AI in the Netherlands:
https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij-de-universiteit-utrecht/vacatures/phd-impact-of-digital-technologies-on-public-education-in-the-netherlands
My slides for the #USAF conference in #southafrica
"#Platformization and
educational governance:
Insights from #open education"
Artist platform Ello tried to fund their social network for artists with VC money, even though their business model was not compatible with rapid growth and monetization.
https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/
#venturecapital #startups #ello #socialmedia #platformization #vc
Check out this RMeS course for #researchmaster & PhD students: “Platformisation: Transforming key economic sectors and spheres of life”, with several of my @utrechtuniversity colleagues teaching in it.
Start: 14 November 2024
Fresh!
"The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate #platformization of education"
Official -> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2024.2396916
Our #T20 police brief is out!
"Building Digital Public Infrastructures (#DPI) for Inclusive, Equitable and Quality Education: Educational technology must be based on public values"
https://www.t20brasil.org/en/pbs?nucleo_id=5&page=2
@janarozario @prigon
#dpg #edtech #open #opened #platformization #commons
So now we have to use two-factor authentication at the university #Microsoft 365. All good, but even though you can use #FOSS apps (even Microsoft indicates in small letters), the university instructs you to download yet another Microsoft product on your cell phone (Microsoft #MFA).
Another subtle way institutions miss an opportunity to challenge #platformization.
Our university finally got the memo. Free isn't free, who knew?
#Microsoft, like #Google now reduced storage space in #Office365 from 1 TB to 100 GB.
A telling line at the end of the email, which points to #governance in #platformization: "It is important to highlight that the terms of use of Office 365 Education are defined exclusively by Microsoft".
#Platformization / Platform Syndrome - The bane of the #OpenWeb?
So-called "#platforms" have risen a fair bit in recent years (i.e. particularly after 2017, and even including Discord, honestly, they are copying some of these negative patterns). These seem to differ a fair bit from previous services which people used to use. For starters, they try to be a one stop shop which covers everything someone might want to do, whereas previously, someone might use one tool for this, a service for this, and a service for that. Even when such platforms existed, they weren't quite so proliferant.
It also seems a lot of the problems which people complain about seems to come from this unholy concentration of services into grand big ones. It also means that you might have inaccurate PR, marketing, media bubbles around particular bigger than life companies. Also, these platform's propensity towards politicisation, including in negative ways. Also, all kinds of contexts which might work more neatly separately have a tendency of collapsing into one, this might involve "algorithms".
Frankly, different services should be logically separated. Instagram shouldn't know anything about your email provider, or your contacts. Google shouldn't only know anything about YouTube (this separation seems to have been undermined during the Google+ hubbub). Facebook shouldn't know anything about Instagram. Threads shouldn't know anything about Instagram. But, questions might have to be asked too about why single companies control so many venues.
Some people like to point to particular things, perhaps, this feature, or that feature, it seems intuitive enough, but imo this is a phantom, a shadow, it is ignoring this phenomena going on in the background. It also tends to lead to proposals which would probably be quite unpleasant for users, and even (bad) ones which aren't really compatible with liberal values.
Is there anything you think I've missed here?
We’re psyched to announce the creation of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) chapter of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-MEA).
The conference will be held on May 28, 2024, in Cairo, Egypt.
If you want to submit an abstract about #platformization #gigeconomy, #ai, #futureofwork, #coloniality, #gender, you can do it here (deadline: 15.01.24): https://mea-indl-1.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
This shows the limits of thinking of #platformization only from the perspective of strong privacy legislation like #GDPR.
#Google will actually help you #DPIA (data protection impact assessments).
"At Google, we create trust through transparency"
https://cloud.google.com/privacy/data-protection-impact-assessment
Are publicly controlled platforms for education a radical proposal? Some thoughts in a new article:
Fresh: Open education and #platformization: Critical perspectives for a new social contract in education
#opened #open #unesco
https://rdcu.be/doJfp
It's #bigtech all the way down. "Modern #AI is fundamentally dependent on corporate resources and business practices, and our increasing reliance on such AI cedes inordinate power over our lives and institutions to a handful of tech firms."
#platformization #educacaovigiada
https://filosofias.es/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/podcast/episodios/ssrn-id4135581.pdf
Online seminar with the cool folks from #Edinburgh; I'll talk about "Education, #platformization and the semblance of choice" - 29th June, 2-3pm ONLINE (UK time)
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/education-platformization-and-semblance-choice
@jaross
It won't be the choice of educators whether students get access to #generative models in education. When things like #microsoft "Co-pilot" get incorporated into #microsoft365, it will be 'another feature' that every ed. manager will feel obliged to pay for, everyone will celebrate cautiously as a new tool (and therefore neither good or bad), and we'll continue down the path to loosing educational governance to #platformization
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/
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