... With the rapid growth of digital technologies, K-Pop has been at the center of the Korean cultural industries in the early 21st century. K-Pop continues to be a frontier of digital platforms and entertainment agencies that utilize digital technologies to advance new forms of cultural production...

... bureaucracy instead of the working class in this “workers’ state.” Stalin suppressed the Platform from publication for a period, then expelled the Left Opposition and forced Trotsky himself. Yet Stalin did this while taking on board much of the program and suggestions advocated by the Left Opposition...

... marketing social media digital platforms platformization idol industry ...

... platforms transmedia technologies ...

... music platforms assetization decommodification multisided market streaming ...

... music streaming political economy digital capitalism music platforms ...

... “Streaming Capital” examines the industrial organization of music platforms. The “multisided markets” they convene confer upon music a peculiar economic status. By ensuring that users never pay directly for music, platforms make music appear to users as if it has been decommodified, transformed...

... The Platform Leon Trotsky Joseph Stalin Five-Year Plan Trotskyism ...

... The epilogue considers interventions that seek to respond to the difficulties music communities face in the age of streaming. These include increasing minimum payout rates; changing revenue share models; developing platform cooperatives; transforming platforms into public utilities; among others...

... platform cooperatives music streaming public utilities labor activism music unions ...

... human capital homo entrepreneur intensification of mothering gig economy care work platforms ...

... uncertain productivity of bioethics indigenous donors bioethics informed consent biomedical platform big pharma ...