{"id":9823,"date":"2026-08-18T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:54:34","slug":"platform-islandization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/08\/18\/platform-islandization\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Platform Islandization\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One for my Reading List from Merlyna Lim (check out her other work too if you haven&#8217;t already):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lim, Merlyna. &#8220;Platform Islandization: The Making of the Computational Archipelago.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Verge: Studies in Global Asias<\/em>, vol. 12 no. 2, 2026, p. 223-247.\u00a0<em>Project MUSE<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/vrg.2026.a997479\">https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/vrg.2026.a997479<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This essay introduces\u00a0<em>platform islandization<\/em>to theorize digital life beyond questions of infrastructure or access, through situated rhythms and ruptures that challenge the universalist claims of platform logics.\u00a0<em>Platform islandization<\/em>is a socio-technical process in which bounded and selectively connected publics emerge within platformed environments. This process produces\u00a0<em>computational archipelagos<\/em>: fragmented configurations of visibility, access, and affect structured by platform logics and infrastructures. I articulate\u00a0<em>platform islandization<\/em>across three registers\u2014\u00a0<em>infrastructural-experiential, epistemic-ethical, and aesthetic-algorithmic<\/em>\u2014revealing fragmentation as a patterned condition rather than a deficit. Grounded in long-term research in Indonesia, this framework invokes &#8220;Indonesia as method&#8221; and offers a portable analytic for understanding how people and digital systems mutually reorder publics, emotions, and knowledges across diverse contexts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One for my Reading List from Merlyna Lim (check out her other work too if you haven&#8217;t already): Lim, Merlyna. &#8220;Platform Islandization: The Making of the Computational Archipelago.&#8221;\u00a0Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 12 no. 2, 2026, p. 223-247.\u00a0Project MUSE,\u00a0https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/vrg.2026.a997479. &#8220;This essay introduces\u00a0platform islandizationto theorize digital life beyond questions of infrastructure or access, through situated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,643,115,5],"tags":[381,239,89,476],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-indonesia","category-indonesia-internet","category-research","tag-academia","tag-indonesia","tag-research","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}