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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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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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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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Erich Fromm and the Critical Theory of Communication [PDF]
, 2020 Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a Marxist psychoanalyst, philosopher and socialist humanist. This paper asks: How can Fromm’s critical theory of communication be used and updated to provide a critical perspective in the age of digital and communicative ...
Engels Friedrich +42 more
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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 US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism
Environment and Planning, 2023 The rise of digital platforms as a new form of business organisation concentrates power in the United States and China. Platform capitalism further intersects with and reinforces pre-existing trends towards state capitalism, where states more actively ...
Steven Rolf, Seth Schindler
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Co-designing for common values:creating hybrid spaces to nurture autonomous cooperation [PDF]
, 2019 This paper concerns the development of digitally-mediated technologies that value social cooperation as a common good rather than as a source of revenue and accumulation.
Bassetti, Chiara +5 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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Next Stage of Global Capitalism: Digital Platforms and Rentier Capitalism
Ekonomi, Politika & Finans Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper examines the concentration of wealth and power in the networked ecosystem of digital platforms in light of the Marxist theory of rent, which views rental income as a form of economic gain without engaging in productive labor.
Duygu Özlük
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