Is it a mistake to lump Airbnb and Couchsurfing together? 🏨🤝

In our latest paper, we analyze user motivations in short-term accommodation platforms. The takeaway: paying and exchanging are completely different worlds.

While payment platforms thrive on price and convenience, exchange networks are driven by community and shared values. The platform economy is not a monolith!

📄 Read the full study: https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.32.4.3

#PlatformEconomy #AcademicMastodon #SharingEconomy #Tourism #Research

Most digital platforms are designed to scale.
But not necessarily to create social or environmental value.

In our study, we revisit platform business models through the lens of Innovation 5.0.

💡 Our main takeaway: platforms have the potential to support sustainable and inclusive ecosystems — but this depends on how they are designed.
The challenge is not technological. It’s conceptual.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78623-5_52

#BusinessModels #PlatformEconomy #Innovation5 #Sustainability #ASO_URV #URV

Envisioning the Future of Work: Experiences and Perspectives from Paraguay’s Digital Periphery

General Context

In line with global trends related to the technological disruption of the labor market, the platform economy is a constantly growing and evolving reality in Paraguay. Since the launch of th

https://www.tedic.org/en/envisioning-the-future-of-work-experiences-and-perspectives-from-paraguays-digital-periphery/

#Blog #DigitalEconomy #Research #HumanRights #PlatformEconomy

YouTube’s Appeal Decision Is In: My Inactive Manager Channel Stays Banned—And It’s Complete Bullshit

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/01/26/16/04/13/analysis/jaimedavid327/9438/youtubes-appeal-decision-is-in-my-inactive-manager-channel-stays-banned-and-its-complete-bullshit/

Dating Apps Are Becoming Informal Job Networks

#PlatformEconomy #WorkCulture

I’ve been thinking about why indie publishing—and a lot of creative work—feels increasingly busy, exhausting, and unsustainable, even as “opportunity” keeps expanding.

I call this pattern the deep-end dynamic:
when creators swim harder and deeper to survive, while platforms rise on that effort.

I unpack it here, starting with publishing but extending well beyond it:
https://lawrencenault.substack.com/p/the-deep-end-dynamic

#CreativeLabor #IndiePublishing #PlatformEconomy #MediaCriticism #AI