PLATFORMIZATION :: ARCHIVE DEFINITION
=====================================


CONCEPT REFERENCE

For this archive, platformization means the shift from many independently shaped
sites toward participation inside large hosted systems that provide identity,
publishing, discovery, metrics, moderation and monetization in one package.

Platforms provide real benefits: low setup cost, easy discovery, shared social
graphs, accessibility tooling, media hosting and abuse controls among them.

The criticism here is narrower: when platforms become the default place where
culture is created and discovered, users can forget that the underlying Internet
supports much more varied structures.