Scholars’ Hub @ Home | Why Digital Platforms are 400 Years Old: From the East of India Company to Amazon

Join Elisha Lim, Assistant Professor of The Technological Humanities, Department of Humanities for Scholars’ Hub on April 23. She will give an overview of contemporary platform studies, which is the study of corporate platforms like Amazon, Google, Meta etc. While these studies only tend to look back at the past 10 or even 50 years, this presentation will explain why these modern digital solutions would benefit from 400-year old colonial insights.