TAGGED: platform business models (17)
On the inadequacy of Wolt’s Algorithmic Transparency Report and the limits of “algorithmic management” discourse
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...
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...
Odds Stacked Against Workers
This article, co-authored with [Julie Chen (University of Toronto)](https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/julie-chen) presents a cross-national comparative study that examines how American and Chinese...
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...
Disrupting ‘Business as Usual’: Covid-19 and Platform Labor
This article evaluates the impacts of Covid-19 on platform-based gig work. It notes a shift in the service market towards on-demand delivery at the expense of ride hailing and domestic cleaning....
At what price? Labour politics and calculative power struggles in on-demand food delivery
This article, part of the special issue of Work Organization, Labour & Globalisation on "The Algorithm and the City", asks what can be gained by making calculability a pivotal demand for wage...
Where Data and Finance Meet: Dual Value Production in the Gig Economy
A version of this working paper will appear in the edited volume _Platform Economy Puzzles: Unravelling the Gig Work Paradox_, edited by Jeroen Meijerink, Giedo Jansen, and Victoria Daskalova.
The...
Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy
In this article, we argue that the governance of gig work under conditions of financialised platform capitalism is characterised by a process that we call “dual value production”: the monetary...
Weathering winner-take-all. How rankings constitute competition on webcam sex platforms, and what performers can do about it
Forthcoming in: David Stark (ed.), The Performance Complex: Competitions and Valuations in Social Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Over the last decade, the global sex industry has been...
A new institution on the block: On platform urbanism and Airbnb citizenship
This article argues that Airbnb should be understood as a new urban institution that is transforming relations between market, state, and civil society actors. Taking the Airbnb Citizen advocacy...
Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the ‘on-demand’ economy
How does one value something one cannot and often does not want to see? How do contemporary digital platforms and their infrastructures of connectivity, evaluation, and surveillance affect this...
