DAY 1 | 10 AM
Opening Keynote
Conference Center
FROM NAPSTER TO NETFLIX TO WORLD DOMINATION:
HOW THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY BECAME THE FRONTRUNNER FOR THE PLATFORMIZATION OF THE WORLD
Platforms are everywhere and increasingly regulate all aspects of our life. How did we get here? Despite all the talks about Surveillance Capitalism and the rise of Apple and Google, it really started with us sharing pop songs via the internet. Napster was a watershed moment in the development of digital platforms that led eventually to Netflix and the streaming phenomenon in the entertainment industry.
But it didn't stop there. Platforms have introduced a new paradigm into the economy that is utterly different to the capitalist regime we are used to. In this talk Michael Seemann will tell the story of how digital platforms first facilitated the loss of control over information and then changed themselves into an infrastructure of control, thereby making us dependent on their access regimes to almost everything.
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