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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.
Yin Liang, Jeremy Aroles, Bernd Brandl
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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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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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Theory, reality, and possibilities for a digital/communicative socialist network society [PDF]
, 2020 Digital capitalism is guided by the organising principles of digital automation, information processing, and communication. It rests on the consolidation of relations of exploitation of digital labour based on flexibility and generating precarity.
Boucas, D., Boucas, D.
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022 In this article, we investigate labour struggles under the condition of digital capitalism. The main research question we address is: How do German unions evaluate and respond to the rapidly accelerating digitalisation of economy and work?
Holger Pötzsch, Kerem Schamberger
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Platform capitalism’s social contract
Internet Policy Review, 2022 What kind of social contract underwrites platform capitalism? Based on findings from the Platform Labor research project, I discuss a number of ways in which platform companies are expanding their services and influence by identifying particular societal needs and marketing themselves as efficient solutions to workers, citizens and civil society ...
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Understanding the social in a digital age [PDF]
, 2020 Datafication, algorithms, social media and their various assemblages enable massive connective processes, enriching personal interaction and amplifying the scope and scale of public networks.
Benjamin R +9 more
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Airbnb, Platform Capitalism and the Globalised Home
Critical Housing Analysis, 2021 Airbnb, the most ubiquitous of the many online short-term rental platforms offering residential homes to tourists, has infiltrated local neighbourhoods and housing markets throughout the world.
Nicole Gurran, Pranita Shrestha
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Digital ecosystem: The journey of a metaphor
Digital Geography and Society, 2023 The term “digital ecosystem” has become ubiquitous through a seemingly endless stream of scholarship, punditry and hyperbole around digitalization, to the point that the metaphor is becoming dead. Considering “ecosystem” as a traveling concept straddling
Maroš Krivý
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The Stack as an Integrative Model of Global Capitalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022 This article investigates recent transformations in global capitalism’s political economy as it relates to the evolution of globally integrated production and exchange apparatuses, such as platforms, enabled through technological advances in ...
Lukáš Likavčan +1 more
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