- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter -
Einrichtung | FG Sozialwissenschaftliche Wissenschafts- & Technikforschung |
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Sekretariat | HBS 7 | Katharina Busch |
Gebäude | Hardenbergstraße (HBS), 1. Stock, linker Seitenflügel |
Raum | HBS 128 |
Adresse | Hardenbergstr. 16-18 10623 Berlin |
Platform-Governance and the Compatibility-Innovation-Dilemma
The present research on platforms basically consists of two bodies of research: On the one hand, platforms are seen as technical infrastructures that provide core functionality for complimentary products, e.g. a mobile operating system providing camera functionality for a wide range of apps. On the other hand, platforms are seen as digital marketplaces that are controlled by private firms, e.g. the App Store where the platform operator controls which developers get access and how the apps are ranked. In my PhD-project, I will theoretically integrate those two platform concepts by conceptualizing platforms as organized marketplaces centered around a certain technical infrastructure where both market and infrastructure are in the control of one entity. This perspective allows relating insights from research on software platforms with research on gig economy or dating platforms, as all three are seen as specific subtypes of platforms only with a different degree to which the infrastructure or the market organization is relevant (see the following graph).
The central research question of my PhD-project is how the specific governance of digital platforms, which consists of a privately regulated market as well as governance through a technological infrastructure, enables the technical innovations on those platforms. Basically, there is an interdependence between platform and app: you cannot innovate the platform without considering the apps and you cannot improve an app without considering the platform. Theoretically, this technological interdependence results in a high incentive not to innovate any of them as platform providers, as well as app developers are interested in maintaining compatibility. In practice, however, platforms and apps have very short and frequent update cycles. My central research hypothesis is that the idiosyncratic characteristics of the governance of digital platforms enable the various actors in the field to overcome the theoretical stalemate situation. To investigate the mechanisms through which platforms and apps coordinate with each other, I conduct qualitative interviews with app developers, CTOs, and computer scientists as well as extensive document analyses of several types of field documents.
Seit 2019 - | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter mit Lehraufgaben am Fachgebiet „Sozialwissenschaftliche Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung“ |
2018-2019 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am DFG Graduiertenkolleg „Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Die reflexive Herstellung des Neuen“, Institut für Soziologie, TU Berlin |
2014-2018 | M.A. Soziologie technikwissenschaftlicher Richtung an der TU Berlin |
2015-2018 | Studentische Hilfskraft am Fachgebiet „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“ an der TU Berlin (Prof. Nina Baur) |
2016 | Auslandssemester an der University of California, Berkeley (USA) |
2016 | Associate Editor bei "Eleven, Undergraduate Journal of Sociology" an der University of California, Berkeley (USA) |
2013-2015 | Studentische Hilfskraft am Innovationszentrum für Mobilität und Gesellschaftlichen Wandel (InnoZ) in Berlin |
2011-2014 | B.A. Soziologie technikwissenschaftlicher Richtung an der TU Berlin (Technisches Nebenfach: Informatik) |
2009-2010 | Studium der Kommunikationswissenschaft und Philosophie an der Universität Erfurt |
Grieser, C. (2023). Innovation as keeping up. Interdependent technologies as drivers of the innovation society. In I. Schulz-Schaeffer, D. Seibt, & A. Windeler (Eds.), Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Befunde und usblicke (pp. 93–121). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39743-2_4
Grieser, C. (2021, i.E.). Plattformen als infrastrukturzentrierte Märkte. Illustration eines integrierten Plattformbegriffes am Beispiel von Solo-Selbstständigkeit auf digitalen Plattformen. [Platforms as infrastructure-centered markets. Illustration of an integrated conception of Platforms using the example of the Self-Employment.] Gesellschaft Unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Für Soziologie 2020.
Grieser, C., & Egbert, S. (2020). Algorithmen als automatisierte Ranglisten. Potenziale der Soziologie der Quantifizierung für die Digitalisierungsforschung. [Algorithms as automated rankings. Potentials of the sociology of Quantification for Digitalization Research.] SoS Discussion Paper 3/2020. (online)
Grieser, C. & Egbert, S. (2020). Algorithmen = Rankings + x? Impulse der Soziologie der Quantifizierung für die Digitalisierungsforschung. Konferenzpapier, 3. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Digitalisierung & Organisation an der TU Berlin (online)
Grieser, C. (2019). The Problem of Collecting Data on Mid-Sized Complete Networks (50 < n < 200) via Questionnaire: A Proposition for Using Subgroup-Based Name Generators. Working Paper, Berlin. Retrieved from www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/61650
Gläser, J., Laudel, G., Grieser, C., & Meyer, U. (2018). Scientific Fields as Epistemic Regimes: New Opportunities for Comparative Science Studies. Working Paper TUTS-WP-3-2018, TU Berlin. (online)
Deisner, J. & Grieser, C. (2018). The Relationship between Openness and Closedness in the FabLab. A Differentiated Typology of Possible Relations between Institutional Logics. In: J. Engelschalt, F. Engels, & A. Maibaum (Hrsg.), Schafft Wissen – Gemeinsames und geteiltes Wissen in Wissenschaft und Technik. Proceedings der 2. Tagung des Nachwuchsnetzwerks "INSIST". München: SSOAR. (online)