News and Research articles on CapitalismData commons are more than data sharing arrangements. They bring up issues relating to the kind of communities they uphold, their relationships with third parties (such as other commons), data capitalism, and various dimensions of sustainability.
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”.
Datafication is a key concept of digital society referring to the quantification and, often, monetisation of human life through digital information.
Datafication (the quantification of social life) is a colonial move which perpetuates a legacy of appropriation. But how to regulate this?