> the interplay between different mechanics inherent to digital platforms, found on different conceptual and topological levels: micro, meso, and macro. It is a way to simultaneously acknowledge the technical capacity of unyielding local control and its consequential concentrations of global dominance by a handful of corporate actors[^platformlogic].
Schwartz uses the term "platform logic" to describe the tensions that arise between the geopolitical level of the impact platforms have and infrastructual control that they acquire.
A platform according to him is a "digital infrastructure (software-based but sometimes also hardware-based) intended for users to apply either computer code in the conventional sense (i.e., to run applications or fetch data from it), or to apply a set of human uses (delimited, formalized, and patterned by the design of the platform in question)" (2017, 4).
Schwartz uses the term "platform logic" to describe the tensions that arise between the geopolitical level of the impact platforms have and infrastructural control that they acquire, more specifically that "a software system that provides a pivotal societal function in one jurisdiction can be thwarted by internal policy decisions made by a gargantuan platform corporation, based in an entirely different jurisdiction" (2017, 18).
To unpack the term *bot logic* further, we will explore four differences between *bot logic* and *platform logic*.
