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The Platform Society

Public Values in a Connective World

By: José van Dijck,Thomas Poell,Martijn de Waal

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The Platform Society

Public Values in a Connective World

By: José van Dijck,Thomas Poell,Martijn de Waal

Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth, while bypassing cumbersome institutional or industrial overhead. In The Platform Society, Van Dijck, Poell and De Waal offer a comprehensive analysis of a connective world where platforms have penetrated the heart of societies-disrupting markets and labor relations, circumventing institutions, transforming social and civic practices and affecting democratic processes. This book questions what role online platforms play in the organization of Western societies. First, how do platform mechanisms work and to what effect are they deployed? Second, how can platforms incorporate public values and benefit the public good? The Platform Society analyzes intense struggles between competing ideological systems and contesting societal actors-market, government and civil society-raising the issue of who is or should be responsible for anchoring public values and the common good in a platform society. Public values include of course privacy, accuracy, safety, and security, but they also pertain to broader societal effects, such as fairness, accessibility, democratic control, and accountability. Such values are the very stakes in the struggle over the platformization of societies around the globe. The Platform Society highlights how this struggle plays out in four private and public sectors: news, urban transport, health, and education. Each struggle highlights local dimensions, for instance fights over regulation between individual platforms and city governments, but also addresses the level of the platform ecosystem as well as the geopolitical level where power clashes between global markets and (supra-)national governments take place.

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Oxford University Press

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0190889780

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Platforms and Cultural Production

By: Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy

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Platforms and Cultural Production

By: Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy explore both the processes and the implications of platformization across the cultural industries, identifying key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labor, creativity, and democracy. The authors foreground three particular industries – news, gaming, and social media creation – and also draw upon examples from music, advertising, and more. Diverse in its geographic scope, Platforms and Cultural Production builds on the latest research and accounts from across North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China to reveal crucial differences and surprising parallels in the trajectories of platformization across the globe. Offering a novel conceptual framework grounded in illuminating case studies, this book is essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are transforming – and what the stakes are for understanding platform power.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509540520

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Knowledge Networks

By: Denise Bedford,Thomas W. Sanchez

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Knowledge Networks

By: Denise Bedford,Thomas W. Sanchez

Knowledge Networks describes the role of networks in the knowledge economy, explains network structures and behaviors, walks the reader through the design and setup of knowledge network analyses, and offers a step by step methodology for conducting a knowledge network analysis.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839829508

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Platform Regulation

Exemplars, Approaches, and Solutions

By: Pradip Ninan Thomas

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Platform Regulation

Exemplars, Approaches, and Solutions

By: Pradip Ninan Thomas

Over the last decade or two, a handful of powerful, monopolist platforms have embraced our lives worldwide. They intermediate our socialities and relationships, what we search for on the Internet, and our online purchases. We are living in a global economy that is fuelled by the monetization of affect. One is now only too aware that various platforms are very systematically using the advantages stemming from algorithmic power and platform externalities to mine and privatize personal data that is in turn sold to advertisers who target not just the present but also future economic behaviours of users. One now also hears of the complicity of some of these platforms in data breaches that have contributed to the making and unmaking of political fortunes of key political parties across geographies. This unprecedented power of platforms is, however, being challenged today. Data breaches, evidence of platform manipulations, platform complicities with state surveillance, and their monopolist behaviours and its consequences for competition and data privacy have become the basis for regulatory responses from governments throughout the world. National and regional courts of law have collected a lot of evidence on myriad forms of platform illegalities that discriminate against competitors and that point to the privatization of personal data on a global scale. The proposed volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and challenges related to platform regulation, the conundrums and paradoxes involved, and also to some of the well-conceived and manageable regulatory pathways currently being explored by national and regional governments. It highlights regulatory responses from four jurisdictions - the European Union, USA, India, and Australia.

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Oxford University Press

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019288798X

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Big Data and the Abuse of Dominance by Multi-Sided Platforms

An Analysis of Art. 102 TFEU

By: Noby Thomas Cyriac

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Big Data and the Abuse of Dominance by Multi-Sided Platforms

An Analysis of Art. 102 TFEU

By: Noby Thomas Cyriac

Der Autor untersucht interdisziplinär, inwieweit Art. 102 AEUV geeignet ist, den Wettbewerb vor dem missbräuchlichen Verhalten marktbeherrschender Plattformen zu schützen. Nach einer ersten Erörterung der Grundlagen der digitalen Wirtschaft, insbesondere Big Data und mehrseitige Plattformen, werden die relevanten Konzepte, die von EU-Kommission und EU-Gerichten in ihrer Entscheidungspraxis zur Auslegung von Art. 102 AEUV entwickelt wurden, näher beleuchtet, um ihre Eignung für das Missbrauchsverbot mit Blick auf Plattformbetreiber vor dem Hintergrund der Besonderheiten mehrseitiger Märkte zu bewerten. Auch das Vorhandensein und die Abgrenzung eines Datenmarktes werden diskutiert.

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322

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Nomos Verlag

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3748934718

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

June 1779 to September 1780

By: Thomas Jefferson

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

June 1779 to September 1780

By: Thomas Jefferson

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3: June 1779 to September 1780, will be forthcoming.

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Princeton University Press

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0691184682

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9780691184685

Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education

By: Theodore Kowalski,Thomas J. Lasley

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Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education

By: Theodore Kowalski,Thomas J. Lasley

Pt. 1. Theoretical and practical perspectives -- pt. 2. Building support for data-based decisions -- pt. 3. Data-based applications.

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Routledge

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1135890846

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Managing Performance Abroad

A New Model for Understanding Expatriate Adjustment

By: Arno Haslberger,Chris Brewster,Thomas Hippler

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Managing Performance Abroad

A New Model for Understanding Expatriate Adjustment

By: Arno Haslberger,Chris Brewster,Thomas Hippler

In a global economy full of multinational firms, international human resource management (including expatriation, career management, and talent management) is a growing topic in the business and management literature and in universities. A thorough understanding of the adjustment of expatriates to their new environment is critical not only for selection and preparation of potential expatriates, but also for the management of expatriate performance. Managed well, expatriates can be key contributors to organizational success while abroad and even after repatriation. Poor understanding and management of expatriate issues, on the other hand, may lead to underperformance and increased turnover of expatriates and repatriates. Managing Performance Abroad summarizes and extends what is known about the topic of expatriate management and adjustment, covering all the major authors and presenting a new approach to the adjustment process. At present, expatriate adjustment is only covered as a chapter in books on international HRM and HRD. Much of this literature relies on outdated concepts and evidence. Furthermore, most business research and management publications use an expatriate adjustment model that was originally published about two decades ago. This book is the first dedicated solely to the subject of expatriate adjustment, enabling readers to formulate research questions and hypotheses and to develop expatriation policies and support systems that optimize the performance of expatriates. It presents a re-formulation of the model underlying management research about expatriate adjustment, providing guidance for researchers and practitioners alike.

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1136278613

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Literature and Social Media

By: Bronwen Thomas

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Literature and Social Media

By: Bronwen Thomas

From Instapoetry to BookTube, contemporary literary cultures and practices are increasingly intertwined with social media. In this lively and wide-ranging study, Bronwen Thomas explores how social media provides new ways of connecting with and rediscovering established literary works and authors while also facilitating the emergence of unique and distinctive forms of creative expression. The book takes a 360 ̊ approach to the subject, combining analysis of current forms and practices with an examination of how social media fosters ongoing collaborative discourse amongst both informal and formal literary networks, and demonstrating how the participatory practices of social media have the potential to radically transform how literature is produced, shared and circulated. The first study of its kind to focus specifically on social media, Literature and Social Media provides a timely and engaging account of the state of the art, while interrogating the rhetoric that so often accompanies discussion of the ‘new’ in this context.

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1000025853

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The Gig Economy in India

Start-Ups, Infrastructure and Resistance

By: Pradip Ninan Thomas

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The Gig Economy in India

Start-Ups, Infrastructure and Resistance

By: Pradip Ninan Thomas

The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India’s digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state governments, and platform providers. The book begins by placing the gig economy in context, defining the platform ecosystem and the Indian government’s perception of its problems and opportunities. Thomas then examines the critical dimensions of the gig economy in India, from its data infrastructure capabilities, the enabling role of venture capitals and FinTech, to government regulations. Attention is paid to the precarity of gig labour, the vagaries of algorithmic management, and the minimal legal support available for workers. The book also includes chapters on labour resistance and highlights some of the issues related to the ethics of artificial intelligence. Given the limited research on India as a case study, this volume fills a crucial gap in the literature. It will interest scholars in diverse fields such as business management, digital media, and communication studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040103146

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The Platform Society

Public Values in a Connective World

By: José van Dijck,Thomas Poell,Martijn de Waal

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The Platform Society

Public Values in a Connective World

By: José van Dijck,Thomas Poell,Martijn de Waal

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Platforms and Cultural Production

By: Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy

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Platforms and Cultural Production

By: Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy

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Book's by Thomas Poell

The Platform Society

The Platform Society

Platforms and Cultural Production

Platforms and Cultural Production

Knowledge Networks

Knowledge Networks

Platform Regulation

Platform Regulation

Big Data and the Abuse of Dominance by Multi-Sided Platforms

Big Data and the Abuse of Dominance by Multi-Sided Platforms

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education

Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education

Managing Performance Abroad

Managing Performance Abroad

Literature and Social Media

Literature and Social Media

The Gig Economy in India

The Gig Economy in India

The Platform Society

The Platform Society

Platforms and Cultural Production

Platforms and Cultural Production

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