Platform capitalism

By Victo José da Silva Neto. 2019

Nick Srnicek, professor de economia digital do departamento de digital humanities do King’s College, publicou em 2017 o livro Platform capitalism. As linhas de pesquisa do autor são economia marxista, economia de plataformas, políticas antitrabalho e economia política da inteligência artificial.

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Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology ‘Solutionism’: a Seller’s Market (2020, background): “Wider sociological impact of digital platforms and their links to market-driven platform capitalism are also prominent areas of critique (Srnicek 2017; Williamson 2020a, b).”
The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading? (2021, background): “In common with other critical approaches to data – in particular platform capitalism (Srnicek, 2017), surveillance capitalism (Zubo ﬀ , 2019), and work in critical data studies (Benjamin, 2019; Broussard, 2019; Eubanks, 2018; Noble, 2018) – the data colonialism thesis foregrounds the continuous…”
Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon (2019, background): “Following Srnicek (2017), Shaw (2018) sees Airbnb as part of platform real estate – that is, digital infrastructure connecting users in an unprecedented way.”
WeChat as infrastructure: the techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms (2019, background): “These parameters resulted in the “Chinese internet” that we know today, which is dominated by the Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent trio (BAT), an acronym that echoes the GAFA “stacks” (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) that are often discussed as the leaders of the global platform economy (Bratton, 2015; Gall”
Emerging trends in aquaculture value chain research (2019, background): “Some argue that these systems will democratize food systems to the benefit of small holders, while others argue they will lead to centralized control and modes of ‘platform capitalism’ (see Srnicek 2017).”
The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “Third are industrial platforms like GE that “ transform traditional manufacturing into inter-net-connected processes that lower the cost of production and transform goods into services ” (Srnicek 2017:49).”
Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates (2020, unknown): “We have already begun to see the first regulatory steps to address what Srnicek (2016) calls platform capitalism, but they are piecemeal.”
The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity (2018, unknown): “User-driven cultural production is clearly thriving but is subsumed under the wider economic regime of “platform capital-ism” (Srnicek, 2016).”
Sharing versus collaborative economy: how to align ICT developments and the SDGs in tourism? (2019, unknown): “The corporate vision of the sharing economy is fundamentally different from the original understanding (Botsman & Rogers, 2011), and has been described as “platform capitalism” (Srnicek, 2017) and the latest form of neoliberal global economic development (Cockayne, 2016; Ravenelle, 2017).”
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (2020, methodology): “Relying on digital intermediation as a business model, platforms can grow at astonishing speed, since they are not limited by the need to construct new infrastructure (Srnicek 2016, pp. 45–46).”
Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work (2019, background): “The explosion of “platform capitalism” (Srnicek 2016) is part of a broader transition from standard employment protections toward “flexible” work arrangements, including contract, temporary, and part-time employment, in the United States and elsewhere since the 1970s (Beck 2000; Kalleberg and…”
‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy (2020, background): “Where temporary staffing firms typically engage workers as employees (Coe et al., 2009) and operate within existing labour regulations, platforms’ business models ‘[leap] ahead of regulations and workers’ (Srnicek, 2017a: 257).”
Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017, methodology): “If we foreground the intermediation of the monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding, moreover, attention is drawn to the techniques and practices of platforms as sites of intermediation across all five of the principal ecologies outlined above (Langley and Leyshon 2016; Srnicek 2016).”
Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia (2019, background): “…‘platform-economy’ has been propelled by advances in computing power and information communication technologies (ICT) (De Stefano, 2016; Forde et al., 2017; Gandini, 2018; Howcroft and BergvallKåreborn, 2019; Kenney and Zysman, 2016; Peticca-Harris et al., 2018; Srnicek, 2017; Wood et al., 2018).”