The concept of the "superplatform" presents a simple way to describe Google’s vast and complex online ad business as a dual-core system that merges market power, infrastructural dominance, and supply chain demarketisation.
Research articles on INFRASTRUCTURE & STANDARDS
Digital platforms are entering community supported agriculture. This paper explores what a cooperative model for such platforms entails for work, governance and accessibility in the solidarity economy domain.
Beyond Big Tech: how Catalan cooperatives are adopting digital tools through collective learning and commons-based principles.
The Drivers Cooperative reveals how diverging stakeholders in platform cooperatives can fracture in their pursuit of developing these platforms.
This article explores working conditions in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and proposes mechanisms for DAOs to become more equitable workplaces, aligned with the solidarity economy.
A sociological analysis of the term ‘trust’ in the context of blockchain technology and science.
The article analyses how the Digital Services Act can be used to counter mental harms associated with using social media, including addiction, attention depletion, anxiety, and depression.
What does a recent decision by the European Union’s Court of Justice – ruling that IAB Europe is liable under the GDPR for a technical standard it wrote – mean for internet standard-setting organisations?
In the shadow of missiles and malware, the open internet becomes the first casualty of survival.
This article explores how governments, shifting from an anti-interventionist stance and views of regulatory impossibility, are embracing an infrastructural turn through strategies that include hijacking, and localising the "points of control" of the internet.