Platform Studies

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Research Article| April 01 2018 Platform Studies Aubrey Anable Aubrey Anable Aubrey Anable is an assistant professor of film studies at Carleton University in Canada. She is the author of Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.135 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Aubrey Anable; Platform Studies. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 135–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.135 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: feminism, game studies, platforms, platform studies The study of contemporary media platforms such as gaming consoles, mobile phones, and social media websites can be understood as an extension of the longer history of apparatus theory, science and technology studies, and the archaeological turn in film and media studies. Platform studies also shares methodologies and theoretical frameworks with code studies, software studies, digital humanities, media infrastructure studies, and game studies. One of platform studies’ primary methodologies is the close inspection and analysis of the materiality of media technologies. By emphasizing the matter of media devices—their chips, wires, slots, sensors, plastic and anodized aluminum bodies—in other words, their thingness, platform studies considers what this matter can tell us about the forces and conditions that shape our media landscape. Taking apart and examining her VCR, for example, Caetlin Benson-Allott finds a filmic architecture that suggests a less rigid and more pleasurable model of spectatorship and sexual difference than... You do not currently have access to this content.