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spir-8786	Burgess, Jean; Baym, Nancy; Cunningham, Stuart; Craig, David; Helmond, Anne; Bucher, Taina; John, Nicholas; Nissenbaum, Asaf	Platform Studies: The Rules of Engagement	2016.0	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5423	271	47	While  the  importance  of  and  methods  for  studying  platforms  have  long  been  debated  in   game  studies  (Bogost  &  Montfort,  2009;;  Apperley  &  Parikka,  2015),  this  panel   represents  a  more  inclusive  and  deeper  iteration  of  platform  studies,  one  that  focuses   on  thinking  critically  about  the  best  ways  to  understand  the  roles  platforms  play  in   mediating  our  media,  communication  and  cultural  environments;;  and  one  that  integrates   materialist  approaches  such  as  software  studies  with  the  core  concerns  of  the  media   and  communication  disciplines  understood  more  broadly.   We  bring  together  four  papers   that  examine,  first,  how  platforms  shape  what  can  be  known  about  them;;  and  second,  to   what  extent  we  can  understand  them  not  only  despite  but  through  those  processes  and   the  traces  they  leave  behind.      	cache/spir-8786.pdf	txt/spir-8786.txt