...Francis Kuriakose; Deepa Kylasam Iyer Platform capitalism has enabled digital platforms to bring producers, consumers, and workers in a multisided marketplace with the purpose of collecting data. The resulting commodification of materiality and sociality in the digital sphere and the proprietary...

...Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco Across 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...

... platform capitalist business models, mechanisms, and logics and bottom‐up anticapitalist organization building, public pedagogy, and alternative media making. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 platform capitalism platform socialism tactical...

... of cognitive capitalism and digital platforms, in particular following the creation of the Internet of Things and cloud computing. In the second part, I will consider the pars construens of the law of the common, reflecting on the possibility of giving new conceptual meaning to the logic of appropriation...

... emerging in the face of the growing platformization and sketch the outlines of a counter-platform politics. Carlotta Benvegnù, Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti, Floriano Milesi, and Maurilio Pirone (Into the Black Box) Platform Battlefield: Digital Infrastructures in Capitalism 4.0 Digital platforms...

... 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...

...Massimiliano Nicoli; Luca Paltrinieri This paper focalizes on the economic model of digital platforms as a new method of coordinating the production of value. We suggest that the advent of “platform capitalism” is symptomatic of a crisis of the model of the firm understood as a space separated from...

... finds that workers in platform capitalism have the capacity to generate new forms of collective self-organisation adequate to their recomposed technical and social composition. These forms are not limited to the level of the city or nation, but also exist on the global scale of platforms themselves. A G...

... of algorithmic management in platform work, considering the limitations of this approach. It considers the ways in which data is, and can be, used in platform work, drawing attention to the limits. While algorithmic management and the collection of data serve a role for capital in platform work...

... of “digital sex work” have been both overly technological deterministic and optimistic, largely invisibilizing capital and the new forms of power and control it enables. The authors argue that the dominant platform for digital sex work in the United Kingdom, AdultWork, is reshaping the market in direct sexual...

... and mobile capital, pitted against workers not just in Lagos but around the world. This article adopts James Scott’s notion of everyday resistance in exposing some of the hidden practices of platform drivers in Lagos. It finds that sabotaging and falsely complying through manipulating algorithms and gaming...

... and Silicon Valley takes on a different hue. To elaborate, using a historical lens, we can begin to make out the ways that the economic, political, and ideological logic of platform capitalism (Srnicek 2017) is a radical extension of the neoliberal logics of flexibilization, the casualization of labor...

... . Srnicek Nick . 2017 . Platform Capitalism . Cambridge, UK : Polity . Standing Guy . 1999 . “ Global Feminization through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited .” World Development 27 , no. 3 : 583 – 602 . Ticona Julia Mateescu Alexandra . 2018 . “ Trusted Strangers...

... Study of the Ride-Hailing Sector in Paris and Brussels Platformization has been portrayed by various types of analysts as a contemporary evolution of global capitalism, for better or worse, based on the disruption of preexisting market structures and actors. An increasing amount of research...

... and monopolized by Lin and Ngai Mobilizing Truck Drivers in China 649 new transportation platform apps. Venture capital found this as a new investment opportunity, and the result is the emergence of mega platform apps like Yun Man Man, which matches millions of truck drivers, mostly independent contractors...

... interests include affective labor in China s digital media industry and platform capitalism. doi 10.1215/00382876-9443490 ...

... Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet . New York : O/R Books . Srnicek Nick . 2017 . Platform Capitalism . New York : Polity . Vélez F., interview by Jillian Crandall , March 18 , 2019 . A G A I N S T the D A Y Jillian Crandall and Andrew Mercado...

... featuring platforms and urban politics uncovers relationships that are often hidden within com- plex arrangements of platform infrastructures and economic production in terms of truly invasive platform capitalism (Srnicek 2017), as well as the actors and organizations that are shaping it and are shaped...

... with regulatory attempts through collaborations of platforms and authorities to introduce a new cre- ator economy and subsequently redefine the milieu of capital accumulation (Lefebvre 1991). The three currents have prominent social forces and logics, each of which is prominent at a particu- lar time...

...Biju Mathew Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data...