7 novembre 2022
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Tatiane Pacanaro Trinca et al., « PLATFORM CAPITALISM AND PLATFORMIZATION IN SCIENCE », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.aac2a9...
Publishing oligopolies of scientific publications have configured their business models to act as data analysis companies, capturing and processing data and metadata produced throughout the research and communication process. Faced with the advancement of these new business models, this text aims to present concepts of platform and platformization with a view to exploring how they manifest in the research ecosystem. It is based on contributions from the Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture and the Platform Studies, through an analytical study of the scientific literature on the subject and search on official websites of academic commercial publishers. The study concludes that platforms are not simple intermediaries that provide digital infrastructure for different users and institutions to interact and take advantage of their facilitating products and services; they structure relations and modulate interaction, remodeling the way of doing science. Acting as platforms, publishing corporations expand their business, domain and control over the production of knowledge through the extraction and use of data.