Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour

M Altenried - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The article takes the surprising exit of the food delivery platform Deliveroo from Berlin as a
starting point to analyse the relationship between migration and the gig economy. In Berlin …

Glitchy vignettes of platform urbanism

A Leszczynski - Environment and Planning D: Society and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
'Platform urbanism'has recently gained traction as a designator for emergent dynamics and
material configurations associated with the increasing presence of digital platform …

Platform affects of geolocation

A Leszczynski - Geoforum, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper engages the intensifying integration of digital location ('geolocation') and
platforms via affect. I mobilize affect as both a theoretical framework and an analytic to …

How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for 'the urban'?

M Hodson, A Lockhart, A McMeekin - Urban Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Digital mobility platforms have become increasingly pervasive over the last decade or so in
a wide variety of urban contexts. Much digital mobility platform activity has focused on city …

Data/infrastructure in the smart city: Understanding the infrastructural power of Citymapper app through technicity of data

G Tavmen - Big Data & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the last few years, smart cities have been a focus of scholarly attention. Most of these
critical studies concentrated on the multinational corporations' discourses and their …

The urban digital platform: Instances from Milan and Amsterdam

L Chiappini - Urban Planning, 2020 - research.utwente.nl
The article interrogates the concept of the urban in relation to digital platforms designed for
citizen-based initiatives and local projects. We must broaden our scope as urban scholars to …

Platforms and/as urban communication: Mediums, content, context

A Leszczynski - Area, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper brings an urban communication lens to bear on the geographies of
platformisation in cities. It does so by drawing on three select instances of platformised …

Platform Urbanism and “Splintering Amenitization”: An Analysis of Canadian Cities

A Govind, A Leszczynski, A Poorthuis - Annals of the American …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article engages with the spatialities of platform urbanism by foregrounding where digital
platforms are located in cities. Drawing on a geocoded data set of visible, material traces of …

Political Ecologies of Platform Urbanism: Digital labor and data infrastructures

D Mahmoudi, AM Levenda… - Urban Platforms and the …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter argues that the labor associated with the production of digital platforms, the
labor associated with their use as “machinery,” and the data on whose circulation this work …