"In this paper, we conceptualize platforms that aim at data integration and analysis as a distinct type of digital platform. Based on the existing literature on digital platforms in general, which so far did not engage with data integration and analysis platforms, we present a definition of data int ... egration and analysis platforms as a digital platform type in its own right. To emphasize the specificity of this platform type, we present a case example, Palantir Technologies, and highlight its structural characteristics and key technical features. The case study shows that data integration and analysis services should be understood as platforms, because like other platforms, they serve as modifiable digital infrastructures that bring together different parties and enable data-dependent interaction. It is especially important to understand data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms because these platforms have their own politics and determine what happens on them, as we illustrate with regard to two important social values that are part of the data sovereignty of organizations: epistemic opacity and epistemic control. We conclude that it is time that platform research not only scrutinizes those technologies and companies that are visible to the eye of large numbers of end-users, but also those that operate in the dark." (Abstract) more

"Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound impli ... cations for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To attend to this fundamental change, the authors propose the concept of algorithmic regimes and demonstrate how they transform the epistemological, methodological, and political foundations of knowledge production, sensemaking, and decision-making in contemporary societies. Across sixteen chapters, the volume offers a diverse collection of contributions along three perspectives on algorithmic regimes: the methods necessary to research and design algorithmic regimes, the ways in which algorithmic regimes reconfigure sociotechnical interactions, and the politics engrained in algorithmic regimes." (Publisher description) more