# Platform Studies [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_studies) ( 2009–present ) ## Description Platform studies, examining hardware/software platforms — game consoles, streaming services, broadcast/internet infrastructure — and their cultural, economic, and creative effects on the media built on top of them, extended by [[Gene Youngblood]]'s internet-era platform critique. ## Key Tags #platform-studies ## Essential Works - Altice, Nathan. *I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform*. Platform Studies. The MIT Press, 2017. - Canonical entry in the MIT "Platform Studies" series, on the NES/Famicom as a creative constraint - Youngblood, Gene. "Secession from the Broadcast: The Internet and the Crisis of Social Control." *Millennium Film Journal*, no. 58 (2013): 174–. - Youngblood's later writing on internet-as-platform and the decentralization of broadcast media, extending arguments from [[Expanded Cinema]] ## Details ### Key Theorists - [[Gene Youngblood]] - extends his expanded-cinema/decentralized-media thinking from the 1970s into internet-era platform critique ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Virtuality]] - shares concerns with telepresence and networked space ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Altice, Nathan. *I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform*. First MIT Press paperback edition. Platform Studies. The MIT Press, 2017. Lab, Precarity. "Digital Precarity Manifesto." *Social Text* 37, no. 4 (2019): 77–93. [https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402](https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402). Petit, Aurélie. "The Hentai Streaming Platform Wars." *Porn Studies*, November 28, 2024, 1–16. [https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2024.2418000](https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2024.2418000). Youngblood, Gene. "Secession from the Broadcast: The Internet and the Crisis of Social Control." *Millennium Film Journal*, no. 58 (2013): 174-. Moritz, William. "Fischinger at Disney - or Oskar in the Mousetrap." *Animation World Magazine*, Issue 1.7. [https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/moritz1.7.html](https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/moritz1.7.html). "TELEPRESENCE ART." Accessed October 15, 2025. [https://www.ekac.org/telepresence.art._94.html](https://www.ekac.org/telepresence.art._94.html).