Fast Facts: Platforms From Personalization to Centralization

In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the economies of search and information retrieval concerning how products giant platform companies consolidate represent facts directly their results. Concomitantly, media, communication, scholars have recently refocused on media technology variably create, collect, connect, commercialize data related to about world such processes implications for we know world. Such approaches often counter popular narratives that seek frame problems platforms terms personalization personalized content. While research afforded by is widespread, also engage centralization merging web representing factual claims offering answers engines virtual assistants’ results responses (what refer as “fast facts”). These considerably affect knowledge constructed shared networked society. This special issue collects empirical investigative platformization, exploitation, while variety perspectives from which study these developments, including semantic infrastructural techniques. article provides an overview this field contextualizes studies broader debates around truth claims.