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From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a prehistory of digital platforms. [PDF]
Organ Stud, 2022 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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Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia. [PDF]
Media Cult Soc, 2022 This article argues for a need to move beyond studies of platform capitalism and inter-capitalist struggles to also account for inter-economic struggles, the platformization of longstanding primarily non-capitalist societies, the same kind of societies that have conceptually inspired discussions of platforms as hi-tech gift economies.
Hobbis G, Hobbis SK.
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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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Left Populism and Platform Capitalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2020 This paper contextualizes and analyses the policy proposals of new “left populisms” (Mouffe 2018) for the regulation and reform of the “platform capitalism” (Srnicek 2017) that increasingly organizes digital communication.
Nick Dyer-Witheford
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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. [PDF]
Int J Cult StudThis 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. The article first outlines several roles the
Steinberg M, Zhang L, Mukherjee R.
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Varieties and similarities of platform capitalisms: a comparative approach of labor regulation in Brazil, Portugal and Spain [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyDigital platforms have led to the emergence of a new digital proletariat worldwide, subject to institutional arrangements that put the labor framework outside of labor law.
José Soeiro +2 more
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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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Secretive organisations: anarchism after platform capitalism
Inscriptions, 2019 Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter's Organization After Social Media interrogate what our relation to the Internet in general, social media platforms, and organised networks in particular should be after botched Twitter revolutions, NSA counter-insurgencies ...
Torgeir Fjeld
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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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