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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 715–731.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to universalize and totalize platform power, we discuss three cases of what we term “actually existing platformization”—a path-dependent and locally situated process in which platform companies engage in various forms of “boundary work” with other actors seeking to retain and/or gain power. Each case focuses...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 703–713.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jamie Woodcock Much of the existing research on platform work has focused on the role of data and algorithmic management. These new techniques of management need to be critically understood, but there is a risk of overemphasizing the importance and power of these techniques. The obscuring processes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 749–762.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of gainful employment, platforms have outcompeted small enterprises that traditionally delivered face-to-face goods and services and expanded their presence on existing informal worker traditions, while progressively destroying the institutional networks that mediated such work. The examination of domestic...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 795–808.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of compa- nies that are able to monopolize the sectors in which they operate and trans- Franco Neoliberal Platform Capitalism and Subjectivity 803 form the quotidian strategies of those who lead a permanently precarious existence into managed data, monopolistically and rationally integrating liv- ing...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (3): 628–641.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in Puerto Rico, USA .” Political Geography 78 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102181 . Coca Nithin . 2017 . “ Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives .” Grassroots Economic Organizing , October 16 . http://www.geo.coop/story/innovative-funding-models...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 689–702.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of actual non-neutral digital infrastruc- tures that determine social, political, and economic relations. The heart of contemporary global society, its connective center, is undoubtedly digital. The web is articulated by the structure of platforms such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 533–551.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Kate Hardy; Camille Barbagallo An increasing amount of sex work in the United Kingdom is now digitally mediated, as workers and clients identify each other, agree prices and services, undertake security checks, and often make payment through various platforms and websites. Existing accounts...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 697–712.
Published: 01 October 2023
... limit the SP's tactical uses of these platforms, the SP's agency to use these to try to make history in digital conditions not of its own choosing is significant. This article argues that the SP's tactical use of social media platforms exists between structure and agency, at the interface of top‐down...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 916–922.
Published: 01 October 2021
... was working within the existing mainstream left party, while at the same time developing a parallel structure to mobilize youth supporters suspicious of bureaucratic structures. However, as I argue in this article, ultimately the stubbornness of the Labour party bureaucracy used as a defensive redoubt...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1904) 3 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 April 1904
.... Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated than in the recent movement to give the machinery for the nomination of candidates to elective offices a legal as well as an extra legal standing. Within the last decade many States have proposed legislation and others have actually enacted laws which have taken...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (3): 553–570.
Published: 01 July 2015
... media platforms to work, “users
need to be quite active, social, creative and networked” (265).
Fuchs and others thus demonstrate the way that users’ activity on cor-
porate social media is in actuality a form of exploited and alienated labor,
which the presentation of social media use...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
... must rank rather high the felt sense that pow- erful new computing technologies now offer a solution to problems of calculation previously insuperable for the red-eyed central planners of actually existing socialist states. This is more or less the central thrust of Leigh Phillips and Michal...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 763–778.
Published: 01 October 2023
...). That there was almost no interaction with reactionary counterpublics (such as pro-JDP trolls, Islamist conservatives, and antifeminists) indicated that the platforms’ tactics of disregarding them and not provoking any discursive fights actually works. Fourth-wave feminism is sometimes popularly labeled “feminism...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 733–747.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to the formalization of these sectors, but can also increase practices of social media surveillance and ratings-based control, exasperating existing forms of inequality (Ticona Benvegnù and Kampouri Platformization beyond the Point of Production 737 and Mateescu 2018). Reconsidering platform labor from...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 777–794.
Published: 01 October 2021
...June Wang; Xinyue Yu This essay explores the three currents of user-generated content (UGC) platform development in China: one is full of improvised endeavors in the cultural production through amateur creativity; one is featured with affective laboring and networking by prosumers, who struggle...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 673–680.
Published: 01 October 2023
... expands as they acquire more members and rendering activists who do use such platforms invisible to those outside their existing circles (Kavada et al. 2023 ). Where network effects do seem to be materializing on the social web, they are being driven by “anti-democratic and far-right reactionary forces...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 729–745.
Published: 01 October 2023
... for helping create communities (Wesch 2008 ; boyd 2007 ) and reviled for assisting in cognitive decline (Zunzunegui et al. 2003 ). It has been commended for presenting a platform that people used to organize (Melucci 1996 ; Milan 2013 ) and demonized for its surveillance (Lyons 2001 ; Trottier 2011...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 779–793.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the spring of 2019. RDU capitalized on social media's advertising platforms, as well as on a purpose‐built app called Solidarity, to bring together a disparate workforce. Next, drawing on Vincent Mosco's framework for the political economy of communication, the article describes how this strategy emerged...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1926) 25 (3): 300–315.
Published: 01 July 1926
... Cyclopedia may readily be believed, that the members of the Farmers Alliance formed a large part of the Democratic state conven tion of 1890, and that the platform was as much a declaration of Alliance principles as of Democratic doctrine.21 The strength of the organization in these years is also evidenced...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 823–838.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to the driver Akin during one of my October 2018 focus group discussions: he had been unaware of when to use the tech- nique, which negatively impacted his earnings. Similarly, platform drivers switch off the location icon in their phone settings, preventing the app from recognizing the actual travel distance...
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