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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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, 2023 Platforms have become a central concern in scholarly production due to their sudden scope and rising popularity in mainstream discourse, which either hyper-celebrate their possible achievements, or over-dramatize underlying consequences. Together with related terms—such as sharing economy, digital ecosystems, algorithmic decision-making—the so-called ...
Casas-Cortés, Maribel +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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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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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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How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism
Big Data & Society, 2023 The rise of digital platforms has in recent years redefined contemporary capitalism—provoking discussions on whether platformization should be understood as bringing an altogether new form of capitalism, or as merely a continuation and intensification of
Petter Törnberg
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Wallerstein on early modern capitalism and global inequality: a reevaluation
Socio, 2021 A critical review of Immanuel Wallerstein’s Modern World-System is far more than just an obligation sociologists and historians owe to one of the most influential social scientists of the last fifty years.
Friedrich Lenger
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