In this episode we talk about platforms and their power. This includes the relevance of social media metrics to users, the gatekeeping function of platforms, and fragmentation trends. For these topics, our guest is the ideal expert to talk to: Subhayan Mukerjee (Assistant Professor at the National U of Singapore) is a computer scientist, mathematician and (computational) communication scholar. What's more, he also brings a global perspective on the use of news and the power of platforms, as Emese Domahidi (Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Professor at LMU Munich) talk with him about the needs for adequate methodology and, maybe even more importantly, for adequate theory.