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The Economic Lives of Platforms
Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets
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- English
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eBook - ePub
The Economic Lives of Platforms
Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets
About this book
This interdisciplinary collection rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them.
By unpacking the concept of 'platform economies' into locally embedded variations of digital markets, the book identifies what is new about contemporary platforms and what is characteristic of wider historical, social and economic currents.
The diverse team of authors employ various analytical approaches, including in-depth ethnographic studies, and theoretical and analytical reconceptualizations of platforms and the industries they encompass.
Tapping into current themes including the decolonisation of the internet, this book offers a timely assessment of the implications of emerging reconfigurations between technology, information, society and markets.
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Yes, you can access The Economic Lives of Platforms by Anne Mette Thorhauge,Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen,Eva Iris Otto,Jacob Ørmen,Morten Axel Pedersen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & IT Industry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets
- 2 Modes of Connectivity: On the Economic Ontology of Platforms
- 3 Platforms and the Social Imaginary of Ordinary Life
- 4 Burdens of Legacy: Enumerative Accountability in Digital Markets
- 5 Voice Intelligence and the Future of Engagement Metrics on Commercial Platforms
- 6 Brokering Data Markets: The Agentive Power of App Builders at the Edge of Platforms
- 7 The Political Economic Process of ‘Platformization’: The Historical Trajectory of Alibaba
- 8 Efficient and Illegitimate: Legitimacy Problems in the Platform Model
- 9 Player-Driven Economies and ‘Money at the Margins’: Game Items as Contingent Commodity Money
- 10 After the Attention Economy: A Postdigital Anthropology of the Future
- References
- Index