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Cities between digital innovation and platform labour
No full textIn this final section we will consider the impact of digital technologies on urban spaces.On one side, this means how high tech giants and platform firms are establishing in urbanspaces as infrastructures for data accumulation and services’ development, influencingnot only urban planning but also economic and social fabric. On the other side, severalurban actors —from municipalities to dwellers— move towards entrepreneurialism oftenusing platforms and data. These processes pose new challenges to local governance interms of regulation and participation that we are going to explore in this paper.In the first paragraph, we will frame the relationship between urban spaces and digitaltechnologies referring to the concept of smart city. In the second, we will focus on aspecific subjectivity emerging in such background, the so-called urban entrepreneur. Inthe third, we will sketch challenges and potentialities for local governance in regulatingsuch phenomena
Die Reichweite digitaler Plattformen: Rezension zu "Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion" von Moritz Altenried, Julia Dück und Mira Wallis (Hg.)
Full text linkMoritz Altenried, Julia Dück, Mira Wallis (Hrsg.): Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2021. 978-3-89691-056-
Rezension zu Moritz Altenried / Julia Dück / Mira Wallis (Hg.) (2021): Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
No full textDer im Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot erschienene Sammelband Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion, herausgegeben von Moritz Altenried, Julia Dück und Mira Wallis, bietet einen aktuellen Überblick zum Forschungsfeld Gig-Economy und soziale Reproduktion in den deutschsprachigen Sozialwissenschaften. Die Rezension greift einzelne Beiträge des Bandes heraus und ordnet diese in das noch neue Feld Plattform-Urbanismus ein
Tackling the Care Crisis through Platform Work: A Review of Moritz Altenried / Julia Dück / Mira Wallis (eds.) (2021): Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
No full textDer im Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot erschienene Sammelband Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion, herausgegeben von Moritz Altenried, Julia Dück und Mira Wallis, bietet einen aktuellen Überblick zum Forschungsfeld Gig-Economy und soziale Reproduktion in den deutschsprachigen Sozialwissenschaften. Die Rezension greift einzelne Beiträge des Bandes heraus und ordnet diese in das noch neue Feld Plattform-Urbanismus ein.The anthology Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion (Platform Capitalism and the Crisis of Social Reproduction), edited by Moritz Altenried, Julia Dück and Mira Wallis, published by Westfälisches Dampfboot, offers an overview of current research on the gig economy and social reproduction in the German-speaking social sciences. The review highlights individual contributions and their relevance for the relatively new field of platform urbanism.
 
Logistische Grenzlandschaften. Das Regime mobiler Arbeit nach dem Sommer der Migration
No full textIl libro ricostruisce, sulla base di una ricerca empirica, le trasformazioni delle politiche migratorie in Germania dopo l'arrivo di un milione di profughi tra il 2015 e il 2016, concentrandosi in particolare sulle diverse modalità con cui è stata promossa la loro "integrazione" nel mercato del lavoro. La prima parte, wscritta dai curatori e composta di tre capitoli (pp. 15-113) presenta i risultati della ricerca, soffermandosi in particolare sul ruolo svolto da un insieme di eterogenee agenzie nel determinare l'incontro tra imprese e migranti e avanzando l'ipotesi secondo cui una razionalità "logistica" è sempre pià evidente nelle politiche migratorie in Germania e altrove. Nella seconda parte, studiosi e studiose di migrazioni commentano la ricerca e apportano ulteriori contributi
The digital factory: the human labor of automation/ Moritz Altenried.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."In recent years, tech companies such as Google and Facebook have rocked the world as they have seemingly revolutionized the culture of work. We've all heard stories of lounges outfitted with ping pong tables, kitchens with kombucha on tap, and other amenities that supposedly foster creative thinking. Nothing could seem further from earlier workplaces associated with a different revolution in capitalism: factories, in which employees are required to perform highly circumscribed tasks as quickly as possible to meet quotas--for next to no pay. However, as Moritz Altenried shows in The Digital Factory, these types of workplaces are not so far from the Googleplex as we might think. While recent accounts of the transformation of labor after the demise of the factory highlight the creative, communicative, immaterial, or artistic features of contemporary labor, Altenried uncovers the factory-like conditions in which many new digital workers perform their jobs. These workers, such as video game testers, social media content moderators, and Amazon fulfillment center workers, perform highly repetitive, unskilled tasks for low and often contingent wages. Based on more than five years of research in different sites using ethnography and interviews combined with an analysis of infrastructural technologies, Altenried's book gives us a first-hand account of many new forms of digital labor that drive contemporary capitalism. He shows that though today's factories might look and feel different than they did 150 years ago, they still follow the same logics and produce the same unequal outcomes"--Workers leaving the factory : introduction -- The global factory : logistics -- The factory of play : gaming -- The distributed factory : crowdwork -- The hidden factory : social media -- The platform as factory : conclusion -- The contagious factory : epilogue.1 online resource (217 pages
INVESTIGATING PLATFORMS. A CRITICAL LEXICON
Full text linkThe aim of this article is to propose an interpretative grid and a critical lexicon through which it is possible to frame in theoretical and methodological terms the disruptions and tendencies of platform urbanism and the main platform labour challenges. The article is organized along seven keywords as a set of tools for expanding and enriching the current debate on these transformations. We will start framing main features of platforms in terms of space and time organization, and then consider their role in social infrastructure as well as their impact on labour organization, not only in terms of value production but also in terms of production of inequalities and resistances. Finally, we will highlight how political categories as sovereignty must be reconsidered due to platforms
expansion.El objetivo de este artículo es proponer una retícula interpretativa y un léxico crítico a través de los cuales sea posible enmarcar en términos teóricos y metodológicos las disrupciones y tendencias del urbanismo de plataforma y los principales retos laborales de la plataforma. El artículo se organiza en torno a siete palabras clave como un conjunto de herramientas para ampliar y enriquecer el debate actual sobre estas transformaciones. Empezaremos enmarcando las principales características de las plataformas en términos de organización del espacio y el tiempo, y luego consideraremos su papel en la infraestructura social, así como su impacto en la organización del trabajo, no sólo en términos de producción de valor, sino también en términos de producción de desigualdades y resistencias. Por último, destacaremos cómo categorías políticas como la soberanía deben ser reconsideradas debido a la expansión de las plataformas
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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