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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"platformization"”.
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ONLYFANS AND THE PLATFORMIZATION OF SEX WORK
The thesis investigates the platformization of sex work. Employing a mixed methodology, including a comprehensive platform ethnography, in-depth interviews with 35 digital sex workers, and qualitative digital methods, OnlyFans is examined as a primary case study to explore how digital platforms are …
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Drivers of Disruption: How Jakarta's Mobility Platform Drivers Understand, Transform and Resist the Algorithms that Manage Them
… of worker relationships as scaffolding for platformization. Paper 3 interrogates the encounter between abstracted, data-driven algorithmic assumptions underpinning mobility platforms with the drivers' contextual, embodied, situated knowledge practices to empirically demonstrate the …
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System Override: A Critical Virtual Ethnography of Women of Color's Digital Praxis in Horizon Worlds
… feminist standpoint theory, Black cyberfeminism, platformization, and digital racial capitalism, arguing that women of color’s situated knowledge is indispensable for dismantling structural inequities in emerging digital ecosystems. By centering participant voices, the study offers empirical …
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Platformizing higher education : computer science and the making of MOOC infrastructures
… way into other institutions, a process I call "platformization." Finally, I suggest that the software-as-platform enables the emergence of a new form of expertise: tool-making. Tool-makers see themselves as building software tools, whose ultimate purpose comes from their users. The tools …
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The Rise of Platform Game Work in China
… to illustrate the uneven and decentralized platformization of video game services in China, a process that could characterize the broader trajectory of digital platforms in the Global South. The decentralization of control calls for a re-examination and re-imagination of working-class …