Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise and Online Selfhood DOI Creative Commons

Panos Kompatsiaris,

Cláudia Álvares, Sofie Van Bauwel

et al.

Media and Communication, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

This thematic issue examines the gendered dimensions of platform economies, focusing on construction online selfhood. Through affordances social media platforms, users expand range topics and content accessible to public, simultaneously exposing these subjects increased visibility potential debate. Platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, X, Telegram enable anyone create channels publicize virtually any topic, fostering niche communities. In other words, driven by their pursuit attention, time, data, cannot be analyzed solely through a business or organizational lens. The economic dimension is intertwined with cultural formations—beliefs, values, identity constructions—which carry an anthropological dimension. this issue, we are particularly interested in aspects intertwining.

Language: Английский

Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise and Online Selfhood DOI Creative Commons

Panos Kompatsiaris,

Cláudia Álvares, Sofie Van Bauwel

et al.

Media and Communication, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

This thematic issue examines the gendered dimensions of platform economies, focusing on construction online selfhood. Through affordances social media platforms, users expand range topics and content accessible to public, simultaneously exposing these subjects increased visibility potential debate. Platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, X, Telegram enable anyone create channels publicize virtually any topic, fostering niche communities. In other words, driven by their pursuit attention, time, data, cannot be analyzed solely through a business or organizational lens. The economic dimension is intertwined with cultural formations—beliefs, values, identity constructions—which carry an anthropological dimension. this issue, we are particularly interested in aspects intertwining.

Language: Английский

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