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"When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he
captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.
The social media platforms, e-commerce sites and search engines they were using
had noticeably deteriorated in quality. Many had begun to prioritise content
from advertisers and other third parties. Profit became the main goal.
Doctorow frames this decline as a death spiral: the online platforms once
offered value to their users, but slowly shifted their focus to extracting
value, with little regard for consequences.
But our recent research, published in
Organization, shows that
enshittification isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now
visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that
hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced,
reviewed and published."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
