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Hodson, M; Kasmire, Julia; McMeekin, Andrew; Stehlin, John; Ward, Kevin R.

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“…Therefore, there is no guarantee that platforms as such are particularly suitable for meeting genuine governance challenges. On the other hand, the wide variety of different types of platforms in business and the public domain give a hint that the platform logic can potentially be successfully extended to more complex areas of collective decision-making, service co-production and governance (see, e.g., Ansell and Miura, 2020; Hodson et al., 2021; Kassen, 2019; Lember et al., 2018). This will obviously be a touchstone for the feasibility and added value of platforms as an evolving mode of governance.…”

Section: Differentia Specifica Of Urban Platforms In Public Governancementioning

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Urban platforms as a mode of governance

Haveri

Anttiroiko

2021

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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This article provides an analysis of urban platform governance by mapping out the major forms of public governance and depicting the role of platforms in this field. By fusing theoretical analyses and empirical views from three urban platforms set up by the largest cities in Finland, we assess the relevance of platforms as an emerging form of local public governance. It is plausible to view platforms as hybrids that incorporate features of both networks and markets, and, to some extent, even hierarchies. However, platforms also have some irreducible features, which makes it possible to perceive them as a fourth mode of governance. Platform logic broadens the view of network governance to a broader set of connections, the orchestration of multiple logics and ecosystem thinking. Points for practitioners Today, city governments create and maintain urban platforms to bring together different actors and enable value-added collaboration in service provision, governance and planning. This article helps local policymakers and managers understand platform logic in involving various audiences in the creation of public value. When governing platforms, local public managers may use many of the same methods as with networks. Platform governance, however, extends the view to a broader set of connections, the orchestration of multiple logics and ecosystem thinking.

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Section: Differentia Specifica Of Urban Platforms In Public Governancementioning

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“…They integrate actors within and across city systems, and enhance interaction between them, with the help of modern technologies. They are often initiated, governed or sponsored by public sector organizations, most notably, by city governments (Hodson et al., 2021).…”

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Urban platforms as a mode of governance

Haveri

Anttiroiko

2021

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…First, the concentration of digitally connected consumers in cities makes them attractive markets for novel platform services. Further, digital platforms dis- and re-intermediate the social, economic, political and infrastructural relationships that compose urban space, bypassing incumbent institutions and enrolling ‘latent’ or uncapitalised spaces and practices into new multi-sided markets (Sadowski, 2020a, 2020b), in what scholars have named platform urbanism (Barns, 2020; Hodson et al, 2020; van der Graaf and Ballon, 2019). At an individual level, digital intermediation enables platform firms to construct consumer profiles valuable to investors and advertisers.…”

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Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas

Stehlin¹,

Payne

2022

Urban Studies

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The rapid rise of digital platform-based transportation services over the past decade has begun to transform urban mobility. Fleets of dockless bicycles and scooters – or ‘micromobility’– represent the newest horizon of investment, particularly in the United States. Micromobility platforms launch rapidly, with minimal public planning or funding and no fixed infrastructure, using inexpensive, GPS-connected vehicles stored in public space. These platforms represent a deepening of the neoliberalisation of transport, in which infrastructural properties emerge biopolitically from the dynamics of private platforms. This article examines public debates over the regulation of micromobility platforms in Austin, Texas, in early 2018. Drawing on interviews with city officials and bikesharing professionals, observation of public meetings and GIS analysis of usage data, we argue that conflicts we observed over new micromobility platforms – specifically ‘clutter’, equity in geographic coverage and data privacy – obscured the deeper political economy of platformisation and the austerity that limited the effectiveness of the existing public station-based bikeshare system. In Austin, the search for ‘innovative’ micromobility transportation at no public cost resulted in the further erosion of the underfunded public system. We argue that despite their flexible, low-carbon image, existing micromobility platforms in the United States largely exploit rather than address inadequacies of urban transport.

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“…21 This underlines “the centrality of API design and governance for new kinds of civic and commercial services developed within and for cities” (Raetzsch et al, 2019, p. 1) but also Alphabet’s key role in developing these API standards. The car then becomes the critical “urban platform” (Hodson et al, 2020) on which other initiatives rely, generating a “structural dependency” (van Doorn et al, 2021, p. 721) that can be leveraged by vehicle operators/manufacturers. Thus, platformization in this guise only further entrenches automotive “machine space” (Horvath, 1974) within the city, generating insights that purport to help manage traffic flows, support urban advertising, and foster economic development.…”

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Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility

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Kanderske

Vlist

2022

Social Media + Society

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“Big Tech” platform companies like Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Amazon are deeply invested in the future of automobility—from developing car-specific interfaces and self-driving technology to establishing business partnerships with automakers. Far from business-as-usual, we explain how Big Tech is reshaping the traditional automotive industry by making the car “platform ready,” as imposed on the web before it. The article considers how this novel transformation of automobility is increasingly significant for critical scholars of social media, platforms, and platformization, as bespoke forms of mediated, datafied, and platformized, sociality emerge. Specifically, we identify six levels upon which this platformization of automobility is unfolding and through which Big Tech is reorganizing the automotive industry according to platform logics concerning programmability, modularity, connectivity, data collection, and developmental partnerships. We do so by analyzing academic and technical literature, industry reports, and initiatives with a stake in platform automobility. Finally, we suggest directions for further research into Big Tech’s stake in the future of automobility, as these new dynamics begin to reshape the automotive industry at large.

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Urban platforms as a mode of governance

Urban platforms as a mode of governance

Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas

Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility

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