News and Research articles on Political economy

Volume 13, Issue 2

Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence

Dieuwertje Luitse, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1768

This paper empirically explores how AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud strategically attempt to operationalise infrastructural power in AI development and implementation through their ecosystems for cloud AI.

KEYWORDS: Infrastructural power, Artificial intelligence, Evolution, Political economy, Cloud computing
Volume 8, Issue 4

Platformisation

Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam
David Nieborg, University of Toronto
José van Dijck, Utrecht University
PUBLISHED ON: 29 Nov 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1425

What is platformisation? This article contextualises, defines, and operationalises the concept. Drawing insights from different scholarly perspectives on platforms it develops a comprehensive approach to this process.

KEYWORDS: Platforms, Platformisation, Datafication, Multi-sided markets, Political economy, Governance