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The Platform Society (Hardcover)
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The Platform Society (Hardcover)
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Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment
in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics,
join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease,
hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant
Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer
personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic
growth, while bypassing cumbersome institutional or industrial
overhead. In The Platform Society, Van Dijck, Poell and De Waal
offer a comprehensive analysis of a connective world where
platforms have penetrated the heart of societies-disrupting markets
and labor relations, circumventing institutions, transforming
social and civic practices and affecting democratic processes. This
book questions what role online platforms play in the organization
of Western societies. First, how do platform mechanisms work and to
what effect are they deployed? Second, how can platforms
incorporate public values and benefit the public good? The Platform
Society analyzes intense struggles between competing ideological
systems and contesting societal actors-market, government and civil
society-raising the issue of who is or should be responsible for
anchoring public values and the common good in a platform society.
Public values include of course privacy, accuracy, safety, and
security, but they also pertain to broader societal effects, such
as fairness, accessibility, democratic control, and accountability.
Such values are the very stakes in the struggle over the
platformization of societies around the globe. The Platform Society
highlights how this struggle plays out in four private and public
sectors: news, urban transport, health, and education. Each
struggle highlights local dimensions, for instance fights over
regulation between individual platforms and city governments, but
also addresses the level of the platform ecosystem as well as the
geopolitical level where power clashes between global markets and
(supra-)national governments take place.
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