This paper offers insight into digital agriculture for platform studies scholars and shows how sectors that are not based around information goods resist disruption by enabling incumbents to entrench power through digital platforms.
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Google Scholar’s platform dynamics undermine the academy’s ability to understand how it evaluates itself.
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.
Findings from other countries indicate that women drop out of platform work twice as quickly as men. We showcase that Serbian women crowdworkers have the same survival rates as men as long as they have the same level of skills and education.
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 opinion piece argues that current attempts at platform regulation will fall short if they continue to focus on platform size, or if they remain limited to particular normative silos.
How can platform policymaking advance developmental objectives given structural barriers? Case studies from Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru offer insights.