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Emergent Transportation “Platforms” in Latin America: Online Communities and Their Governance Models
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021 New models of peer governance are emerging from online communities in the Global South. This is visible in an understudied case of ridesharing “platforms” created on social media communities and materializing in Latin American cities.
Luis H. Lozano-Paredes
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How does collaborative economy contribute to common good?
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue S2, Page 68-83, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Collaborative economy emerged as a response to the need of people to exchange, produce and share in a more humane and cooperative manner. However, the growth of collaborative economy organizations and the terminological confusion have led to debates about their possible effects, both positive and negative.
Rosario Gomez‐Alvarez +1 more
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Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 603-618, September 2023., 2023 Short Abstract What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Community wealth building, cooperative development and foundational economy approaches are fast gaining traction in municipalities across the UK, an entrepreneurial reinvention of 1980s municipal radicalism.
Matthew Thompson
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Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation
Ecological Applications, Volume 33, Issue 5, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Bird‐ and bat‐mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly understood. Whereas birds and bats prey on herbivorous arthropods, they may also prey on arthropod mesopredators such as ants, with poorly understood consequences ...
Carolina Ocampo‐Ariza +9 more
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Augmented reality strategy as a didactic alternative in rural public schools in Colombia
Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 552-573, May 2023., 2023 Abstract There are access restrictions to the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for rural schools in Colombia. These schools, with few students and teachers geographically dispersed, do not benefit from the possibilities of these technologies in the classroom.
Jhon W. Sánchez‐Obando +1 more
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Building Platforms Differently
Journal of Political Sociology, 2023 How do alternative conceptions of exchange emerge and proliferate within platform capitalism? Drawing on research at the intersection of organizational theory and social movement studies and a data set of 18 interviews, this paper examines the ...
Jonas Pentzien
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Becoming a Platform in Europe [PDF]
, 2021 Emerging out of the collaborative work conducted within the Working Group “Mechanisms to activate and support the collaborative economy” of the COST Action “From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy”, the book
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Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities [PDF]
, 2022 Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms?
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Urban Science, 2018 The term “collaborative economy” or “collaborative economy platforms” refers to exchange, sharing, and collaboration in the consumption and production of capital and labor among distributed groups, supported by a digital platform.
Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt
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Directions in Music: Stakeholder Perspectives on Blockchain Innovations in Music Streaming
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020 In its various guises, blockchain technology has generated friction across a range of sectors; most notably as an enabler of anonymous trading, but perhaps more significantly in terms of longer-term adoption, via its application in supply-chain ...
Matthew Lovett
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