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dc.contributor.authorCasas Cortés, Maribel
dc.contributor.authorCañedo Rodríguez, Montserrat
dc.contributor.authorDiz, Carlos
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación.
dc.coverage.spatialNueva York
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-12T14:58:48Z
dc.date.available2026-01-12T14:58:48Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-18
dc.description.abstractPlatforms have become a central concern in scholarly production due to their sudden scope and rising popularity in mainstream discourse, which either hyper-celebrate their possible achievements, or over-dramatize underlying consequences. Together with related terms—such as sharing economy, digital ecosystems, algorithmic decision- making—the so-called platform revolution has been portrayed as a profound transformation upon previous modes of economic exchange and models of business organization. Platform scholarship is sharply divided among utopian and dystopian prospects, contributing to a multiplication of terminology and opposing narratives around the emergence and development of platforms. While some fields and disciplines emphasize its multiple potential benefits, others explore its continuities with previous negative trends. Both, defenders and critical scholars of platforms, agree upon the intermediary role of connecting economic agents through technological innovations as the defining feature of platforms. Those working in the field of anthropology—and its sister disciplines such associology, human geography, cultural and media studies, as well as legal scholars—have been steadily contributing to complicate, if not undo, an overly optimist or pessimist portrait of the platform economy. Thanks to case-based studies and empirical appraisals of its inner workings, these disciplines are developing more complex and rather critical accounts of its human and environmental entanglements. The very study of platforms, as with other research objects such as mobility, technology, and racism, among others, request a certain fluidity between disciplinary boundaries, giving rise to transdisciplinary fields and approaches. In the case of the emerging field of platform studies, the discipline of anthropology has a lot to offer. Indeed, anthropology’s attention to materiality, everyday practices, and agency are already informing the literature on platforms. Methodologically, ethnography is becoming one of the main approaches to engage the complexities of platforms. For an anthropology of platforms to fully unfold, three areas of research can be identified as worth exploring: (a) tracing the genealogies and logistics of platform infrastructures; (b) further understanding the limits of this economic model by building and expanding upon established concrete and critical engagements; and (c) accounting for the conjunctural contingency of platforms by paying due attention to expressions of resistance and instances of reappropriating platforms.en
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dc.description.sponsorshipEl texto titulado "Platform Capitalism", publicado en 2023 en la Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, se relaciona con el siguiente proyecto de investigación: «Culturas emergentes de precariedad móvil en la Gig Economy Digital: El sector de la comida a domicilio en España», financiado por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2020-115170RB-100).
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dc.identifier.citationCasas-Cortés, M., Cañedo-Rodríguez, M., & Diz, C. (2023). Platform Capitalism. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Retrieved 9 Jan. 2026, from https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.001.0001/acrefore-9780190854584-e-597 https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.597
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.597
dc.identifier.eisbn9780190854584
dc.identifier.isbn9780190854584
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31364
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final26
dc.page.initial1
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentAntropología Social y Cultural
dc.relation.ispartofOxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
dc.relation.projectidinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/MCIN/Culturas emergentes de precariedad móvil en la Gig Economy Digital: El sector de la comida a domicilio en España 2021-2024/PID2020-115170RB-100
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject5103 Antropología social
dc.subject33 Ciencias Tecnológicas
dc.subject.keywordsplatform economyen
dc.subject.keywordslogisticsen
dc.subject.keywordsdigital infrastructuresen
dc.subject.keywordsplatform laboren
dc.subject.keywordsplatform capitalismen
dc.subject.keywordsprecarityen
dc.subject.keywordsresistanceen
dc.subject.keywordseveryday lifeen
dc.subject.keywordsanthropology of platformsen
dc.titlePlatform Capitalismes
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dc.typejournal articleen
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