Petter TörnbergDo platforms like Uber, Upwork, Google, and Amazon represent a fundamental transformation of capitalism – or merely a digital form of neoliberalism?
In a recent publication in @BigDataSoc, I use regulation theory to answer this question. 🧵 1/
But the forces described by regulation theory merely condition capitalist trajectories.
The outcomes are determined by political action, and there are multiple possible paths forward.
Platformization may today undermine democratic power, weaken public services, promote labor precarity, violate privacy, and destabilize the world's democracies, but there are reasons to believe it could just as well serve to enable new forms of democratic governance.
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