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A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The cases of Alibaba and Tencent
Media, Culture & Society, 2022This article situates China’s efforts to toughen the regulation of its tech companies since the late 2010s in the global context of Big Techs rein-in and the specific trajectory of economic development in China. Focusing on the three-phase development of
Lin Zhang, J. Chen
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Finance and Society
Does music sound all the same nowadays? This article revives the Frankfurt School’s critique of the culture industry by recontextualizing it within contemporary financialized platform capitalism.
Paul Niklas Kullick, Johannes Petry
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Does music sound all the same nowadays? This article revives the Frankfurt School’s critique of the culture industry by recontextualizing it within contemporary financialized platform capitalism.
Paul Niklas Kullick, Johannes Petry
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State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft's data centres in Greece 2.0
Platforms & SocietyThis article examines the under-explored role of the state in enabling platform capitalism by analysing Microsoft's infrastructural investment in Greece, as part of the country's post-pandemic ‘National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Greece 2.0’.
C. Papaevangelou, Eugenia Siapera
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From platform capitalism to strategic place-based platformisation?
Environment and PlanningDigital platforms have pervaded a broad sweep of urban life over the last decade and more. Urban mobility platforms have been particularly prevalent, often seeking to disrupt and provide alternatives to the existing organisation of provision.
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Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative
New Political EconomyOver the past decade, there has been an expansion of digital platforms that has reshaped the world of work by introducing platform work. Most of the studies on gig work – platform work – focus on the global North.
Fikile Masikane, Edward Webster
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Neoliberal Platform Capitalism and Subjectivity
South Atlantic Quarterly, 2021Across the globe, algorithmic technologies have undeniably altered the way labor relations are governed. The purpose of this article is to investigate a particular manifestation of that phenomenon: how, in Brazil, platform capitalism consists in a hybrid rationality whose control over the sphere of work combines new mechanisms of governance with ...
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Cultural Sociology
While extensive scholarship has examined how platformisation has transformed music distribution and consumption, relatively little attention has been paid to its impact on talent discovery and artist development processes. This study investigates how the
Massimiliano Raffa
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While extensive scholarship has examined how platformisation has transformed music distribution and consumption, relatively little attention has been paid to its impact on talent discovery and artist development processes. This study investigates how the
Massimiliano Raffa
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Futurity-led platform capitalism: the regulation of inclusive insurtech platforms
Global Political Economy, 2023This article investigates international and national regulation of the recent foray by inclusive insurance firms into platform capitalism. It contributes to current debates on the governance of Fintech/insurtech in digital financial inclusion and ...
Yannick Perticone
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“Temu is evil, but I still use it”: Platform cynicism in platform capitalism
New Media & SocietyRecent scholarship in critical algorithm studies has illuminated how users negotiate and resist algorithmic influence in everyday platform use, yet these perspectives remain underexplored in online consumption.
Shuxian Liu, Edgar Gómez-Cruz
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Global capitalism is being reshaped by two major trends. States have become increasingly interventionist, reshaping their economies in response to crises and geopolitical tensions. Secondly, digital platform giants have emerged from the US and China that
Steve Rolf, Seth Schindler
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