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Revista Brasileira de Inovação, 2019 Nick Srnicek, professor of digital economics in the department of digital humanities at King’s College, published in 2017 or free Platform capitalism. Thus, the author's research lines are Marxist economics, platform economics, anti-trafficking policies,
Silva Neto, Victo José da
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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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Convivial Autonomy in Platform Capitalism
, 2022 The rise of digital technology and the politics of lockdown have pushed Western economies towards what Nick Srnicek calls ‘platform capitalism’. Digital companies like Uber, Deliveroo, and TaskRabbit develop apps that workers download to acquire work ...
Christiaens, Tim +2 more
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Platform capitalism describes the reorganization of economic activity and relations around a new type of firm – the digital platform firm. Platforms are digital infrastructures that intermediate between users in multi-sided markets.
Kemmerling, M. ; https://orcid.org/
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The Parameters of Platform Capitalism
Krisis, 2018 Review of Nick Srnicek (2016) Platform Capitalism. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 120 pp.Review of Nick Srnicek (2016) Platform Capitalism.
van Doorn, Niels
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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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Book review: platform capitalism by Nick Srnicek [PDF]
, 2017 In Platform Capitalism, Nick Srnicek examines the rise of platform-based businesses from the 1970s to the present and how these are transforming the workings of contemporary capitalism.
Koh, Sin Yee
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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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, 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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Hacking platform capitalism: the case of domestic workers on South Africa’s SweepSouth platform
, 2022 This essay examines, "the experience of domestic workers on the SweepSouth platform, their strategies of power in manoeuvring algorithmic control, and the emancipatory possibilities (and limitations) of transforming platform capitalism ...
Kalla, Shaeera
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