This article contextualises, defines, and operationalises the concept of platformisation. Drawing insights from different scholarly perspectives on platforms—software studies, critical political economy, business studies, and cultural studies—it develops a comprehensive approach to this process. Platformisation is defined as the penetration of infrastructures, economic processes and governmental frameworks of digital platforms in different economic sectors and spheres of life, as well as the reorganisation of cultural practices and imaginations around these platforms. Using app stores as an example, we show how this definition can be employed in research.

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平台化

本文对平台化的概念进行了语境化，定义和操作。从软件平台研究，批判性政治经济学，商业研究和文化研究等平台的不同学术观点中汲取见识，它为这一过程开发了一种综合方法。平台化定义为数字平台在不同经济部门和生活领域中的基础设施，经济流程和政府框架的渗透，以及围绕这些平台的文化习俗和想象力的重组。以应用商店为例，我们展示了如何在研究中使用此定义。