[Commlist] ICA postconference: Labor and play in Platform Society

TL;DR
- Event: ICA post conference
- Theme: Labor and Play in Platform Society
- Place: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (hybrid)
- Dates: June 18, 2025
- Registration: Free
- More info and registration: 
https://gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2025/06/04/labor-and-play-in-platform-society/ 
<https://gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2025/06/04/labor-and-play-in-platform-society/>

ICA post conference (hybrid) on June 18 is open for registration (free).

Keynote by Daniel Joseph (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Talk description: What happens to a cultural industry when its 
platform-driven growth ends? As social media networks were becoming 
platforms in the late 2000s, the digital games industry was already 
firmly platformizing as console manufacturers, digital distributors, and 
production companies were finding ways to creatively extend their 
economic, infrastructural, and governmental power across a wide variety 
of networked games and services. In this talk I argue that in 2023 the 
digital games industry completed this process of platformization with 
the collapse of a long period of growth that began in 2006. The industry 
immediately went into crisis, resulting in more than thirty thousand 
layoffs to date. This talk also explores how the process of 
platformization created the conditions of this crisis and what new 
sociological and technological factors are at play for the industry now, 
be they AI, disruptive geopolitics, or a shrinking audience. I argue 
that the digital games industry’s crash signals the beginning of what I 
call “post-platformization”: an era where platforms are solidly 
integrated into the industry’s political economic calculus and, at the 
same time, no longer guaranteed to be able to drive growth they 
previously had.

Organizers:

  * Daniel Nielsen, Charles University, in Prague
  * Alessandro Gandini, Milan University
  * Anne Mette Thorhauge, Copenhagen University


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