Platforms such as Google, Apple, Facebook/Meta and Amazon play a crucial part in our digital lives and social interactions. These platforms have become steering forces in the ways in which societies are organised. With their algorithms, they promise instant services and personalised recommendations to make our lives easier. However, platforms are based on commercial values and can only be used in exchange for data about our online behaviour. In her research, Van Dijck investigates how this ‘platformisation’ impacts the ways in which societies are shaped, and explores how the digital society can be organised differently, based on public values such as privacy and autonomy rather than commercial ones.   

This IMPAKT TV episode is hosted by Daniela Tenenbaum (assistant curator and IMPAKT) and Rosa Wevers ((PhD candidate Gender Studies at Utrecht University).

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