Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check
Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about …

The complexities of platforms are increasingly at odds with the narrow legal and economic
concepts in which their governance is grounded. This article aims to analyze platformization …

Let's begin with some definitions. We have, after all, had platforms for a long time, and as
such the meaning of this term has had many opportunities to mutate. We've known train …

Platforms in the urban environment are fundamentally unaccountable. They present
themselves as too big to control, too new to regulate, and too innovative to stifle, and remain …

The disappointments of the online economy–for instance, user surveillance and systemic
labor abuses–stem at least in part from its failures to meaningfully share ownership and …

A practical guide to the new economy that is transforming the way we live, work, and play.
Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when …

Platform urbanism has emerged in recent years as an area of research into the ways in
which digital platforms are increasingly central to the governance, economy, experience …

The platform business model is predicated upon a voracious appetite for data that can only
be sated by disregard for privacy (and often workers' rights), and constant outward …

Rather than viewing online platforms as digital marketplaces, we analyze platforms as corporationsandplatformparticipantsasawor…
. Onlineplatformsperformverysimilar functionsasanyothercorporation, butindifferentways …

By mediating everyday activities, social interactions, and economic transactions, digital
platforms play an increasingly dominant role in contemporary capitalism. These platforms …