The social appropriation of new technologies refers to technological and social processes of mediation in the interaction between social actors and technological devices.
What kind of social contract underwrites platform capitalism? Based on findings from the Platform Labor research project, this essay argues that we are seeing the emergence of different gendered “platform fixes”.
Gender inequalities in digital labour platforms echo those in the traditional labour market.
This paper considers the logic of ‘platform care’ as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour.
This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.
This introduction to the special issue provides the state of the art of research on the interplay between the platform economy and gender.
We provide a theoretical framework to systematise content gaps in Wikipedia and then use it to examine how this platform shapes women's visibility.
UpWork affordances are gendered affordances, since male users are allowed different conducts compared to female freelancers, who experience cyberviolence. UpWork serves as a case study to investigate the relationship between digital platform functioning and gender inequality in a platform economy context.
This essay knits a dialogue between feminist political theory and a feminist economy, aiming at addressing the multiple challenges of the contemporary platform economy.
This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias. Introduction Wanghong is short for the Chinese term “wangluo hongren”: people who have gone viral online. Covering a wide spectrum of participants including video uploader, vlogger, popular accounts on diverse social media, wanghong refers to a particular stream of vocational Chinese internet celebrities that have acquired their celebrity online and have acute incentives through various models to liquidate such online influence by transforming followers into consumers (Han, 2020a). As of late, the wanghong economy in China …