Actually Existing Platformization

Doorn, Niels van; Mos, Eva; Bosma, Jelke R.

doi:10.1215/00382876-9443280

Cited by 23 publications

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“…The development of third-party businesses on top of a core platform has created interactive networks that have been interpreted using the perspective of infrastructure studies (Plantin et al 2018;Helmond et al 2019;van Doorn et al 2021). For instance, Plantin et al (2018) suggest that the scale reached by both Google and Facebook ensured that these platforms had some of the properties of infrastructures; essentially, the widely accessible networked structures that became crucial elements for individual users, companies and even governments.…”

Section: Digital Platforms and Student Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Platformization of Student Housing and the Rise of Mid‐Term Rentals. The Case of Uniplaces in Lisbon

Cocola‐Gant

Calvo

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The most common approach to student housing has been articulated by studentification literature. Furthermore, authors have highlighted how student demand attracts institutional investors to develop Purpose‐Built Student Accommodation (PBSA). In this paper, we complement these approaches with a conceptualization of how digital platforms have restructured the supply of student rooms in houses of multiple occupation. Relying on business and software understandings of platforms, we first explore the case of Uniplaces in Lisbon, a platform that has imitated the Airbnb model and today is present in more than 130 cities in various countries. Second, we depict Uniplaces within a landscape of mid‐term rental platforms that cater for different profiles of mobile populations, who stay in destinations for a short‐ or mid‐term period of time. We conclude with a discussion about the potential of this market to further advance processes of transnational gentrification and weaken the position of tenants.

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Section: Digital Platforms and Student Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Platformization of Student Housing and the Rise of Mid‐Term Rentals. The Case of Uniplaces in Lisbon

Cocola‐Gant

Calvo

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…Recent years have seen the growing involvement of private, for-profit businesses in disaster management projects. These companies often partner with public bodies and non-profits to deliver goods and services on a charitable basis, arguably with a view of securing an advantageous position in future markets and gather data on potential customers and their consumption patterns (see, for example, the case discussed by van Doorn et al. , 2021).…”

Section: Datafication and Philanthrocapitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The C-word: how critical cartography, critical GIS and critical data studies can repoliticise disaster-related maps

Carraro

2023

DPM

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PurposeMapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used in disaster research and practice. While, in some cases, these practices incorporate methods inspired by critical cartography and critical GIS, they rarely engage with the theoretical discussions that animate those fields.Design/methodology/approachIn this commentary, the author considers three such discussions, and draws out their relevance for disaster studies: the turn towards processual cartographies, political economy analysis of datafication and calls for theorising computing of and from the South.FindingsThe review highlights how these discussions can contribute to the work of scholars engaged in mapping for disaster risk management and research. First, it can counter the taken-for-granted nature of disaster-related maps, and encourage debate about how such maps are produced, used and circulated. Second, it can foster a reflexive attitude towards the urge to quantify and map disasters. Third, it can help to rethink the role of digital technologies with respect to ongoing conversations on the need to decolonise disaster studies.Originality/valueThe paper aims to familiarise disaster studies scholars with literature that has received relatively little attention in this field and, by doing so, contribute to a repoliticisation of disaster-related maps.

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“…Whereas popular and market-promotional discourse celebrates the flexibility that workers enjoy in the platform economy, critical scholars sharply expose that digital platforms, appearing as labor intermediaries, are profiting through labor exploitation of low-income workers globally (Brophy & CMNS444 2020; Chen 2018; Graham et al 2017; Hoang et al 2020; Srnicek 2017; Sun 2019; Ticona & Mateescu 2018; van Doorn 2017; van Doorn et al 2021). Niels van Doorn’s (2017: 900) definition of platform labor/work as ‘digitally mediated service work’ is useful here to differentiate the platform gig economy from other types of platform economy – such as sharing economy, peer-to-peer and business-to-business platforms, financial platforms, and social media platforms – despite their interdependence (Bouchard et al 2021).…”

Section: Situating Platform Work In the Continuum Of Labor Exploitationmentioning

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Situating platform gig economy in the formal subsumption of reproductive labor: Transnational migrant domestic workers and the continuum of exploitation and precarity

Yin

2023

Capital & Class

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In conversation with critical platform and labor studies, which tend to focus on drivers and food delivery workers, this article seeks to expand our understanding of the platform gig economy from the perspective of reproductive labor and migrant domestic workers. The exploitation of women’s unpaid and low-paid reproductive work has persisted throughout various stages of capitalist development. Migrant domestic workers’ underpaid reproductive labor becomes an essential site for primitive capital accumulation and the production of the labor force in the contemporary neoliberal global economy. Building upon analyses of the historical and contemporary circumstances of transnational migrant domestic workers in Canada, I argue that digital labor platforms become a technology-enabled, capital-driven force in the larger commodification and exploitation process of migrant workers’ reproductive labor, and such processes are underpinned by entangled structural and institutional forces of the uneven capitalist development, racism, patriarchy, and the state’s discriminatory (im)migration and labor policies. The article suggests that understanding the seeming prevalence of platform work should be situated in the continuous formal subsumption of reproductive labor and the class immobility of migrant domestic workers, and labor activism and movements should contest the entwined power dominations beyond merely demanding regulations over platforms.

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Actually Existing Platformization

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

The Platformization of Student Housing and the Rise of Mid‐Term Rentals. The Case of Uniplaces in Lisbon

The Platformization of Student Housing and the Rise of Mid‐Term Rentals. The Case of Uniplaces in Lisbon

The C-word: how critical cartography, critical GIS and critical data studies can repoliticise disaster-related maps

Situating platform gig economy in the formal subsumption of reproductive labor: Transnational migrant domestic workers and the continuum of exploitation and precarity

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