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Wu, Angela Xiao; Taneja, Harsh

Platform enclosure of human behavior and its measurement: Using behavioral trace data against platform episteme

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  • Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Platform enclosure of human behavior and its measurement: Using behavioral trace data against platform episteme
  • Beteiligte: Wu, Angela Xiao; Taneja, Harsh
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2021
  • Erschienen in: New Media & Society, 23 (2021) 9, Seite 2650-2667
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/1461444820933547
  • ISSN: 1461-4448; 1461-7315
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  • Beschreibung: Digital trace data from giant platforms are gaining ground in the study of human behavior. This trend accompanies contestations regarding representativeness, privacy, access, and commercial origin. Complementing existing discussions and focusing on knowledge production, we draw attention to the different measurement regimes within passively captured behavioral logs from industries. Taking an institutional perspective on measurement as a management technology, we compare platforms with third-party audience measurement firms. Whereas the latter measure to provide “currency” for a multi-sided advertising market, the former measure internally for their own administrative purposes (i.e. prescribing behavior through design). We demonstrate the platform giants’ two-fold enclosure of first the user ecology and subsequently the previously open market for user attention. With platform trace data serving as a lifeline for scholarly research, platform episteme extends itself to enclose knowledge production. We conclude by suggesting ways in which academic quantitative social sciences may resist these platform enclosures.