The Junior Research Group Digitalization and Social Tranformation examines the growing influence of digital platforms as key actors in shaping social, economic, cultural, and political processes and norms. From transportation and communication to intimacy and cultural production, platforms have become embedded in everyday life. The research group investigates how platformization—as a form of institutional transformation—reconfigures societal infrastructures, social practices, and patterns of inequality. Through a multidisciplinary lens, it focuses on the interplay between platform governance and evolving expectations, identities, and labor conditions, and their implications for gendered and economic disparities.