A Platform Society

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From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China (2021, unknown): “As algorithmic systems become the technological infrastructure of the platform economy (Van Dijck et al., 2018), food-delivery couriers’ experience and perception of work – being flexible or not – are subject to the platform company’s business goal to retain workers at a minimum cost and cultivate…”
WeChat as infrastructure: the techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms (2019, background): “***Table 1 about here*** The features that Tencent has added to WeChat during its development follow a platform logic the characteristics of which have already been extensively described for Western platforms (Helmond, 2015; van Dijck & Poell, 2013; van Dijck et al., 2018).”
Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media (2021, background): “Of course, users’ agency around algorithms is substantially restricted by platform structures (Van Dijck et al., 2018).”