Conference/ BOOKS (Polity Press): platforms, apps, infrastructures, ethics

Polite Press has a very interesting series of short books, dedicated to a single platform each: Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Each book offers a short an engaging introduction into various issues associated with economic, social and technical aspects of these platforms' lives: popular culture and fandom, social justice and mental health, cultural imaginaries and financial flows.

In addition, there are books focusing on the infrastructural, technical and socio-legal aspects of digital connectivitity and platform sociality: Apps: From Mobile Phones to Digital Lives, Regulating Platforms, and Wi-Fi. Finally, moving to look at interconnections of devices, platforms and network, The Internet of Things and Search Engine Society introduce key dilemmas of indexing and searching,tracking, knowledge, privacy and control. Finally, Digital Media Ethics introduces several key issues in a textbook on digital ethics.