We propose a set of three new conceptual tools to analyse the role of digital platform ‘insiders’, adding to debates on the understanding of digital governance as a socially embedded phenomenon through the study of open access academic platforms. Rather than framing these debates as a confrontation between private/commercial and public/non-profit actors, as is done in much of the literature on open access, here we use online scientific platforms as case-studies in STS and socioeconomic to assess broader issues surrounding scholarly digital-content management, such as the structuring of international vis-à-vis regional networks, the politics and practices of assessing organisational performance within platforms, and the creation of managerial logics corresponding to the non-commercial interests within scientific communities.
Luis Ignacio Reyes-Galindo - State University of Campinas and Clement Bert-Erboul - Université Libre de Bruxelles, "New Perspectives In Digital Platform Governance: Qualitative Studies Of Open Access Platforms", contributed by Lina Franken, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 28 May 2020, accessed 26 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/new-perspectives-digital-platform-governance-qualitative-studies-open-access-platforms
Critical Commentary
This is an abstract for the EASST/4S 2020 open panel "Digital Experiments in the Making: Methods, Tools, and Platforms in the Infrastructuring of STS".