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Platform Capitalism and the Gig Economy: Surplus Value Extraction in the Age of Algorithmic Labor

Socialisme en democratie
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Soumik Sarkar
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Techno-feudalism or platform capitalism? Conceptualising the digital society

European Journal of Social Theory
A number of popular commentaries in recent years have contended that the emergence of an advanced, platform-oriented digital economy marks the end of capitalism as such.
Jeremy Gilbert
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Agrarian Platform Capitalism: Digital Rentiership Comes to Farming

Antipode
With the rise of digital technologies, a political‐economic configuration recognised as “platform capitalism” has raised concerns over monopolistic tendencies, lack of accountability, expanded rentiership, workers’ precarity, and more. Existing analyses,
E. Reisman, Madeleine Fairbairn, Zenia Kish   +2 more
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The rise and contestation of platform capitalism: Evidence from two food delivery blackouts in Malaysia

Journal of Industrial Relations
The vulnerability and inequality of on-demand gig workers around the world are epitomised by the insecure rights that arise from the legal implications of their status. They are the biggest victims of capital accumulation under platform capitalism, which
Yosuke Uchiyama, F. Furuoka, Siti Aminah Omar   +2 more
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Varieties of platform capitalism? Competition, regime types and the diversity of food delivery platforms across Europe and North America

Socio-Economic Review
This article challenges the idea of platform capitalism, that digital platforms implement a uniform model based on a self-employed labor force. Expanding on empirical evidence of a diversity of platform models, we theorize expectations about platform ...
Dzifa Ametowobla, Stefan Kirchner
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Platform Capitalism in India

2020
This volume provides a critical examination of the evolution of platform economies in India. Contributions from leading media and communications scholars present case studies that illustrate the social and economic ambitions at the heart of Digital India.
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Alienation 2.0: the algorithmic commodification of agency in platform capitalism

Journal of Multicultural Discourses
This study examines the restructuring of democratic subjectivity within digital environments, focusing on how social media platforms foster algorithmic alienation and exercise algorithmic governance.
A. Krouglov
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Platform Capitalism: Social Gamification in Innovative Advertising Practice of the App

Media and Communication Research
: This article attempts to discuss the innovative application of gamification measures in mobile App design. Currently, many apps continue to incorporate gamification measures, aiming to increase user engagement within the platform and enhance ...
Jinhou Zheng
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Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing

Language in society
This article focuses on the branding of Patriotic Alternative (PA), a British fascist organization and business, in three analytic steps: (i) branding as circulating ideologies as commodities; (ii) branding as creating—and selling—community, and (iii ...
Catherine Tebaldi, Alfonso Del Percio
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Labour movements, gig economy, and platform capitalism

2022
Far from being a new phenomenon, the gig economy has been reshaped by the current rise of platform capitalism. But while new technologies have introduced new challenges for labour, new forms of worker mobilisation have emerged, renewing the forms of collective action and unionism in the new phase of digital capitalism. The chapter looks at the specific
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