Platforms. An introduction. The thing, the chaos, humans and flows
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re53.167Keywords:
platforms, typology, humans, fows, platform capitalism, informational capitalism, cognitive capitalism, work platformsAbstract
This work focuses on Internet platforms, in the context of informational capitalism. Faced with the limitations of the previous characterizations and typologies, three aims are proposed. First, defining the platforms and systematizing their main features. Second, offering a typology of platforms, attending mainly to two complementary variables (their for-profit or non-profit nature and the main good or service that they mediate: goods, links or work). Third, to specifically characterize capitalist platforms by identifying their business models, the types of human actors and flows that circulate in them. Methodologically, the article is based on the critical review of specialized literature and on the introduction of own categories.
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