Marc Steinberg

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Buy this book!! Zombies and undead labor and all by the brilliant David Bering Porter!!

So excited that the book is coming out in November from @uminnpress.bsky.social!

Very excited to share a link to my new book! The introduction is now available at dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...

Spent the morning with @msteinbrg.bsky.social 👋🏻

Can’t wait to read this book in its entirety- it’s a fantastic account of digital India post smartphone and post “unlimited data “ by one of its foremost scholars

Can’t wait to read this book in its entirety- it’s a fantastic account of digital India post smartphone and post “unlimited data “ by one of its foremost scholars

Few pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.

Turns from war to the ballroom without a blink - after claiming he won’t get bored of war

What a waste of an hour I’ll never get back. SOTU seems basically a fail right? 10 minutes clapping for hockey can’t be a good use of time, no?

So satisfying to find niche screencaps for lecture. 🤌 Today we read Marc Steinberg's @msteinbrg.bsky.social excellent translation of Ōtsuka Eiji's "World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative" in Mechademia Second Arc 5, no. 1 (2010). 📖🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

It was Mad King Don day but Carney stole the limelight

Fascinating new book on academic stardom by the always smart @melstanfill.bsky.social !

Hi Bluesky

A thoughtful piece on social media and sociality... by JP Verne: Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy - Vergne - Journal of Management Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This really is a Netflix world. Finalizing my Netflix Effect syllabus at present and the title of the course has renewed relevance

I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️‍🔥✨✨✨

Very fascinated by this new email scam: I read your article and have questions, give me your contact details that are WhatsApp or LINE etc. These scams play into the egos of academics - wow, someone read my work and wants to talk about it! Who else has received these?

💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A brilliant intervention in platform studies and Asia just dropped: "Platformize Asia—Reimagining Asia in Platform Capitalism". It will be one of the most important articles in the new few years. Congrats to @linzhang.bsky.social & @elainejyuan.bsky.social ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)

Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!

Oz: “We’ve dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies, I’m hoping by the midterms.” Inflation, unaffordable healthcare, job layoffs, and now you’re referring to future newborns as “Trump babies?” There’s no fucking way that’s going to happen.

They say the 90s are back. But I won't really believe it till I see people reading the Krokers, and carrying around dot-matrix print-outs of articles from CTHEORY.

Is LinkedIn the new academic Twitter? A place to share and learn about research?

The dark side of Japanese convenience stores - on.ft.com/3Jvk9Ok via @FT @msteinbrg.bsky.social

Seems like a piece to read: tracking "a structural change from the production-to-consumption ‘supply chain’ model of the recording era towards emergent circuits of content that integrate industries and audiences" doi.org/10.1177/1367...

this unremarkable knob routinely sets unholy gobs of money on fire to pretend his boomer sneaker ad company is innovative and interesting, and the press just endlessly normalizes it

What does 5 trillion even mean