Marc Steinberg

@msteinbrg.bsky.social

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Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.

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GS25 a Korean chain rebrands as a "lifestyle platform" in Vietnam

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Complex graph of production and market share and outsourcing

Henry Wai-Chung Yeung book on
Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia

Newspaper article from FT with title

Nomura apologises after ex-banker charged with trying to murder client

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This article examines expanded cinema's relationship to distribution by analyzing the rental histories of early works of expanded cinema that are distributed through the Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and which were designed to circulate with written projection instructions. The FMC's archival records demonstrate that projection instructions enabled these works to travel to a range of exhibition venues across the continental United States during expanded cinema's period of emergence. Examining these records reveals new aspects of expanded cinema's history, geography, and politics.

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Table of Contents that include
0. Joshua Neves and Marc Steinberg, “Introduction”
1. Joshua Neves and Marc Steinberg, “In Convenience”
2. Darren Byler, “Convenient-for-the-People Policing, Protected Consumer-Citizens and Infrastructures of Disposability in Northwest China”
3. Orit Halpern, “The Resilient Situation: Adaptive Management, Finance, and Environment”
4. Armin Beverungen, “Collectivizing Convenience? From Fulfillment to Logisticality”
5. Mél Hogan and Steven Gonzalez, “Clouded Conveniences”
6. Tung Hui-Hu, “Waiting for ‘Day Zero’”
7. Susanna Paasonen, “Platform Economies, Reputational Stains, and the In/conveniences of Porn”
8. Neta Alexander, “Theorizing ‘Anti-Content’: On Sleep Apps and Horizontal Media”
9. Rahul Mukherjee, “In/Conveniences of Mobile Payments: ‘Alternative Data’ and the Distribution Infrastructures of Loan Apps”
10. Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio, “Beyond Inclusion: Glitchy Economies and the Promise of Algorithmic Optimization in African cities”
11. Tomasz Hollanek and Maya Indira Ganesh, “Easy Wins and Low Hanging Fruit: Blueprints, Toolkits, and Playbooks to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in AI”

Cover text read In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround.
Edited by Joshua Neves and Marc Steinberg

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Stills from different films and an invitation to study at the Film and Moving Image studies graduate programs

Book cover for From Bombay to Bollywood: The making of a global media industry by Aswin Punathambekar. Shows cover of a Wall Street Journal magazine depicting Lord Ganesh with a Reliance baseball cap