TAGGED: Airbnb (9)
Platform capitalism’s social contract
Niels van Doorn discusses a number of ways in which platform companies are expanding their services and influence by identifying particular societal needs and marketing themselves as efficient...
The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting
In this article, we argue that it is analytically productive to think about the professionalization of hosting on Airbnb in terms of (commercial) gentrification. More precisely, we believe that...
Actually Existing Platformization: Embedding Platforms in Urban Spaces through Partnerships
Published in a special issue of **South Atlantic Quarterly**, this paper examines the partnership as a heterogeneous boundary resource that enables platforms to generate dependencies, become...
Actually existing platformization: Embedding platforms in urban spaces through partnerships
In this paper, upcoming in a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, we examine the partnership as a heterogeneous boundary resource that enables platforms to generate dependencies, become...
Platformed professionalization: Labour, assets, and earning a livelihood through Airbnb
Based on fieldwork in Berlin, this paper tries to disentangle what 'professionalization' on Airbnb entails and who is able to take part in such processes.
Is solidariteit een kwestie van digitale bemiddeling?
Article published on Sociale Vraagstukken (Dutch)
Abstract: Door de coronacrisis laten mensen digitale platforms zoals Airbnb en Uber vrijwel links liggen. Buurt- en vrijwilligersplatforms...
