1000 Platforms: Ensembles as Ontological Experiments

by Adrian Mackenzie

Overview

In today’s digital world, platforms are everywhere, shaping our social and cultural landscapes. This groundbreaking book shows how platforms are not just technical systems, but complex networks involving diverse people, practices and values. It explores a wide range of digital platforms, using insights from science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural theories to offer fresh perspectives on how platforms, media and devices function and evolve.

Blending ethnographic work with technical analysis, this is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the digital age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529237399
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	05/20/2025
Series:	Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adrian Mackenzie is Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing 1000 Platforms

2. Edging: From Terminals to Interfaces

3. Shading: Images and Their Associations

4. Hashing Many Containers

5. Embedding and Embodying

6. Closures and Their Stagings

7. Alignments and Earth

8. Implications