Acta Sociológica

In recent years, the rise of digital platforms has radically transformed the ways in which we interact, work and participate in everyday life.
radically transformed the ways in which we interact, work and participate in everyday life. This issue of Acta Sociológica, is framed in a context where sociodigital platforms not only mediate discourses, but also act as powerful shaping agents of consumption practices, sociability, and labor relations through datification and algorithmic governance (van Dijck, Poell, and Waal 2018; Sued 2022). After a period in which sociodigital networks were studied as enabling spaces for sociability practices, identity construction, and information mediatization, a new cycle opens where the role of platforms, algorithms, and data as modeling agents of digital practices and public expression is reflected upon. From this framework, the inequalities reproduced by the action of platforms and algorithms in a context of apparent communication without hierarchies are brought to light, and a research agenda based on the revelation of the power mechanisms of platforms, care in the face of inequality of LGTBQ+ collectives and the resistance of activist collectives, among others, is formed.