Geolocation, trust, and platform affects
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- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
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- Queensland University of Technology ePrints Archive
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Abstract
This paper engages the intensifying incorporation of digital location data, interfaces, and affordances as pervasive features of digital platforms by positioning geolocation as a vital assemblant of ‘platform affects’. We theorize platform affects as collective and individual orientations of attunement, predisposition, and/or incentivization towards participating on, remaining within, and/or returning to platforms. Trust and securityare two key instrumentalities that work to so invest users in digital platforms by making these systems “‘[feel] right’” to users (Pink et al.,2018, p. 3). As we demonstrate in this paper, digital location affordances, utilities, and services have emerged as indispensable technics and discursive agents by which platform affects of security and trust are assembled for and by digital platforms, extending to users “a sense of control in [spaces] of uncertainty” that resolves for them ambiguities about participating on, using, or repeat engaging with digital platforms (Pink et al.,2018, p. 3).
