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The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy
Chinese Journal of Communication, 2023the history of tencent is also the history of China’s internet industry. tang’s work makes an important step in probing into the various roles of the state in tencent’s development that are both enabling and constraining.
Yingtien Lin, Jiaxin Zhang
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Federated Learning Intellectual Capital Platform
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2021In the era of artificial intelligence, trained neural network models have become new products of the information age. Most of machine learning strategies currently used to train neural networks are supervised learning, and thus, training data with labels become new intellectual capital (IC).
Chengying He +4 more
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Convivial autonomy in platform capitalism
2022The 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. These apps extract data from their workers in order to subsequently control their conduct.
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Platform Capitalism, Platform Cooperativism, and the Commons
Rethinking Marxism, 2021This essay explores the potential for transitioning from platform capitalism to a commons-oriented postcapitalist ethical economy.
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From Platform Capitalism to Digital China: The Path, Governance, and Geopolitics
Social Media + SocietyThe “platform turn” across various disciplines has introduced a new framework for analyzing the global digital economy. This special issue critically engages with existing discussions by adopting a broad political-economic perspective on the platform ...
Jingyan Elaine Yuan, Lin Zhang
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New Media & Society, 2023
Cross-disciplinary scholarship on platform-mediated transformations is growing rapidly. Large-scale data centers that aggregate hardware resources are an important element shaping the expansion of platform economies.
Devika Narayan
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Cross-disciplinary scholarship on platform-mediated transformations is growing rapidly. Large-scale data centers that aggregate hardware resources are an important element shaping the expansion of platform economies.
Devika Narayan
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On optimization: Cultural labor in platform capitalism
New Media & SocietyTo labor in platform capitalism is to optimize. Based on 66 semi-structured interviews conducted over 8 years with data scientists, software engineers, and content creators at BuzzFeed and Upworthy, this article conceptualizes optimization as a mode of ...
David Elliot Berman
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A Feminist Political Economic Analysis of Platform Capitalism in the Care Sector
The Review of Radical Political Economics, 2023Despite women being increasingly engaged in labor-platform activities, little of the research conducted on this topic to date has included a feminist perspective.
Paula Rodríguez-Modroño +2 more
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Automation and Platform Capitalism
2022The morphology of the current transformation of the 21st century can be examined with the tools of Polanyi's analysis of the great transformation (TGT). The previous profound socio-economic transformation was connected to the Industrial Revolution that created industrial-urban societies.
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Structural violence of platform capitalism: A case study of online sex workers’ experiences
Journal of SociologyWith the rise of Web 2.0 and online sex work platforms, it's important to understand the structural violence faced by online sex workers. Utilising data from an online forum, AmberCutie, and drawing on structural violence as a theoretical framework, we ...
Brittany Palatchie +2 more
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