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From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a prehistory of digital platforms [PDF]
Organization Studies, 2021 This article explores the automotive lineage and manufacturing origins of platforms. Challenging prevailing assumptions that the platform is a digital artefact, and platform capitalism a new era, this article traces crucial elements of platform capitalism to Toyotist automobile manufacture in order to rethink the relationship between technology and ...
Steinberg M.
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Industrial platform capitalism: Outsourcings, syntheses and resistances
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2023 Countering the theses of ‘post-industrial society’, in this article we develop the argument that platform capitalism synthesises the radicalisation and the spread of the logic of industrial production.
Henrique Amorim +2 more
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Charting Platform Capitalism: Definitions, Concepts and Ideologies [PDF]
New Technology, Work and Employment, 2022 AbstractThe term ‘platform capitalism’ captures a dynamic set of new work modalities that are mediated by platforms and have been brought about through advances in Information and Communication Technologies, adjustments in consumption modes and preferences, and changes in how work is conceived.
Bernd Brandl, Jeremy Aroles
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Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism [PDF]
Big Data & Society, 2021 Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing an outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it.
Salomé Viljoen +2 more
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Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures
International Journal of Cultural StudiesThis article argues for a pluralization of the “platform capitalism” framework, suggesting we should think instead in terms of “platform capitalisms.” This pluralization opens the way to a better account of how platforms work in different geocultural contexts, with our focus being on China, India and Japan.
Marc Steinberg, Rahul Mukherjee
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Platformize Asia—Reimagining Asia in Platform Capitalism
Social Media + SocietyThis introduction repositions “platform” and “Asia” as unstable, contested imaginaries rather than fixed objects of analysis. Bringing platform studies into dialogue with Asian studies, we argue for a double move of deconstruction and reconstruction ...
Lin Zhang, Jingyan Elaine Yuan
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GlobalizationsDigital platforms are expanding globally with significant implications for how economies operate. We argue that the literature has tended to over-emphasize the globalized and homogeneous impacts of platforms with less analysis of variable patterns across space.
Christopher Foster
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Trajectories in platform capitalism [PDF]
Mobilities, 2021 Platforms are digital ecosystems that bring together various actors to form multi-sided markets. This bringing together entails an organisation of trajectories that in turn organise those moved by them into experiential and existential orders. This article sets out a general account of trajectories under these conditions, first identifying three kinds ...
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Sociologica, 2021 The paper engages the problematic of platform capitalism in the company of Fernand Braudel. Platform capitalism is accordingly located in the opaque zone of the so-called antimarket, “where the great predators roam,” with its characteristic conditions of
Jamie Peck, Rachel Phillips
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At a crossroads: Uber and the ambiguities of the COVID-19 emergency in Lisbon
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2021 The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the surface some problems and trends within digital platforms, including working conditions, while simultaneously transforming the relationship between platform capitalism and ...
Giovanni Allegretti +2 more
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