What do platforms do? Understanding the gig economy

S Vallas, JB Schor - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its
consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the …

A systematic review of collaborative digital platforms: structuring the domain and research agenda

D Wegner, AB da Silveira, D Marconatto… - Review of Managerial …, 2024 - Springer
This article reviews the emerging literature on collaborative digital platforms, a stream of
research focused on platforms that spur the collaboration of participants of various kinds and …

[HTML][HTML] The feasibility of platform cooperatives in the gig economy

DJ Bunders, M Arets, K Frenken, T De Moor - Journal of Co-Operative …, 2022 - Elsevier
In view of the precarity and economic dependency of gig workers, platform cooperatives
come into the picture as alternatives to investor-owned platforms. We develop a taxonomy of …

[PDF][PDF] Economía colaborativa: un nuevo mercado para la economía social

RA Sánchez - CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y …, 2016 - redalyc.org
Con la expresión “economía colaborativa” se hace referencia a los nuevos sistemas de
producción y consumo de bienes y servicios surgidos gracias a los avances de la …

How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism

P Törnberg - Big Data & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise of digital platforms has in recent years redefined contemporary capitalism—
provoking discussions on whether platformization should be understood as bringing an …

Platform cooperatives and the dilemmas of platform worker‐member participation

M Mannan, S Pek - New technology, work and employment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the surge of interest in platform cooperatives, we have a limited understanding of
the dynamics of platform worker‐member participation in these cooperatives. Drawing on …

Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities

N Schneider - New Media & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Online platforms train users to interact with each other through certain widespread interface
designs. This article argues that an “implicit feudalism” informs the available options for …

[图书][B] Solidarity in the sharing economy: The role of platform cooperatives at the base of the pyramid

M Mannan, S Pek - 2021 - Springer
In recent years, we have witnessed growing interest at the intersection of two important
phenomena: the rise of the sharing economy and long-standing interest in tackling pressing …

The promise of precision: datafication in medicine, agriculture and education

D Kuch, M Kearnes, K Gulson - Policy Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses how precision has become a ubiquitous prefix in medicine, agriculture
and education. The accompanying imagination in each of these domains is that “data” will …

Platform and data co-operatives amidst European pandemic citizenship

I Calzada - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Many European pandemic citizens will likely be unemployed during the COVID-19 crisis.
This article explores whether it is possible to alter existing data governance extractivist …