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Erich Fromm and the Critical Theory of Communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism

open access: yesBig 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
doaj   +1 more source

Wallerstein on early modern capitalism and global inequality: a reevaluation

open access: yesSocio, 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

open access: yesEkonomi, 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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Editors’ Note: Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism

open access: yesSociologica, 2021
This is an introduction to the Special Topic on "Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism"
Ivana Pais, David Stark
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Social networking and transnational capitalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Social Networking Sites (SNS) have become a key component of users’ experience of the internet. Whilst much has been made of the social dynamics of online SNS, the influence of the structures and operations of these sites – and the business models behind
Kreps, DGP
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Digital Capitalism, Datafication, and Media Education

open access: yesSeminar.net, 2021
As digitization and datafication continue to extend into all areas of society, digital capitalism becomes equally ubiquitous and universal. Digital capitalism, and related phenomena such as data, surveillance or platform capitalism, operate on the basis ...
English English   +3 more
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A tale of two capitalisms: preliminary spatial and historical comparisons of homicide rates in Western Europe and the USA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article examines comparative homicide rates in the United States and Western Europe in an era of increasingly globalized neoliberal economics. The main finding of this preliminary analysis is that historical and spatial correlations between distinct
Ames, M.   +66 more
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#BoycottBlizzard: Capitalismo de Plataforma e a Colonização do Jogo

open access: yesRevista Contracampo, 2021
Este artigo discute os mecanismos de governança e controle exercidos pela desenvolvedora de games Blizzard sobre seus jogadores e consumidores. Baseia-se na controvérsia que ocorreu entre a empresa e o jogador profissional Blitzchung, que se manifestou ...
Thiago Falcão   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook Watch

open access: yesGlobal Storytelling, 2022
In recent years, as more corporations have decided to launch their own streaming platforms, it has become of greater importance for each to differentiate themselves through a suite of strategies intended to mark their place within the market.
Jake Pitre
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