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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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Platform capitalisms and platform cultures. [PDF]
Int J Cult StudThis article argues for a pluralization of the “platform capitalism” framework, suggesting we should think instead in terms of “platform capitalisms.” This pluralization opens the way to a better account of how platforms work in different geocultural contexts, with our focus being on China, India and Japan.
Steinberg M, Zhang L, Mukherjee R.
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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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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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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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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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Information Platform on Tajikistan [PDF]
, 2004 The "Information Platform on Tajikistan 2004" is a comprehensive digital resource designed to provide in-depth insights into the socio-political and economic landscape of Tajikistan as it stood in the early 21st century.
Information Platform
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Sociologica, 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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Why platform capitalism is not the future of work
Work in the Global Economy, 2022 This article examines the assumptions behind the sociology of work and industrial relations literature on online labour-based platforms. This literature has critically examined working conditions and worker resistance in platform work, but it has done so without criticising what we call the ‘metanarrative of the platform economy’.
Azzellini, D, Greer, I, Umney, C
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#BoycottBlizzard: Capitalismo de Plataforma e a Colonização do Jogo
Revista 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
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