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

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, Daniel Marques, Ivan Mussa   +2 more
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Digital Capitalism, Datafication, and Media Education

Seminar.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, Theo Hug, Ina Sander, Rachel Shanks   +3 more
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Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook Watch

Global 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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Penser les résistances et alternatives au capitalisme de plateforme

Tic & Société
In this article, we propose both a state of the art and new perspectives for thinking about resistance and alternatives to platform capitalism. The first part defines resistance and alternatives in the context of anti-capitalist struggles, while ...
Ludovic BONDUEL, Francesco BRANCACCIO, Kianoosh YASAEI   +2 more
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Le coopérativisme de plateforme à la lumière du commun comme mode de production

Tic & Société
This article focuses on the limits of platform cooperativism as an economic and political alternative to platform capitalism. To carry out our analysis, we examine the common as a mode of production, suggesting that the cooperative platform movement is ...
Filippo GREGGI
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Understanding Racism in Digital Capitalism. Racialisation and De-Racialisation in Platform Economies, Infrastructural Racism and Algorithmic Opacity

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Recent literature has argued that digital technologies reinforce existent inequalities along race, class and gender. However, the relationship between digital capitalism and racism is yet to be explored in depth.
Stefania Animento
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From flatmates to realestate? Platform capitalism and the transformation of share housing

Digital Geography and Society, 2023
The rise of platform capitalism has been instrumental in facilitating capital accumulation at scale through the commodification of previously untradable services and spaces.
Pranita Shrestha, Nicole Gurran, Zahra Nasreen   +2 more
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