#PlatformEconomy
If a platform does not serve people, what exactly is it scaling for?

Human-centered design should shape the business model from day one.

#HumanCentered #PlatformEconomy
October 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM
New in #JD: "Under-the-radar female migrants in Spain as a user moral economy: collective agency in the platform economy". Transparency, mutual aid and rapid mobilisation🔗 doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-
2026-0053

#PlatformEconomy #MigrantWomen #DigitalSolidarity #AlgorithmicGovernance
doi.org
September 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Old wine in new bottles.

In this new piece, I contend that only X (Twitter) reward strategies have changed; the precarities of the platform’s economic model remain.

www.kitan.info/blog/x-conte...

#platformeconomy #sociology #economics #politics #Africa
August 27, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Don't miss the latest issue of Transfer, the European Review of Labour and Research, published quarterly by ETUI Research and @journals.sagepub.com 📓

A packed open issue, covering subjects from the #GreenTransition to #automation and the #PlatformEconomy

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/trsa/32/...
August 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
What happens when intimacy becomes a middle-class service economy?
New Red Umbrella Research Brief: The Price of Authenticity Bernstein (2007)
Watch here: youtu.be/JJbA6E7-ucA
Please subscribe!

#Sociology #DigitalLabour #PlatformEconomy #Class #Research #redumbrellaresearch
August 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
📢 Call for Papers: Social Policies and Regulation of Work in the Platform Economy 📢

Me and Fabian Beckmann @iaqdue.bsky.social are guest editing a special issue of the Zeitschrift für Sozialreform:

#CallForPapers #PlatformEconomy #SocialPolicy #WorkRegulation #Research
March 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Bleak: Watching entire industries pretend “innovation” means repackaging the same extraction model with a nicer interface. The shine wears off fast when you realize the efficiency gains never flow downward.
#TurboTax #TechNews #PlatformEconomy
April 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
✨My contribution to the platform/platformization debate 🫣

Being a “Global Music Platform”: Platform Work in Light-Tech Capitalism

Out in Social media + Society

📚 Check it out here:

👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#PlatformEconomy #TechCapitalism #DigitalLabor #PlatformStudies
Ta Da Toby Domzalski GIF
ALT: Ta Da Toby Domzalski GIF
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September 23, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Korea escalates scrutiny of travel platforms.

Prosecutors searched Yanolja and Yeogi Eottae over coupon-based advertising programs that may have shifted costs to partner businesses. ⚡️

🔗 koreatechdesk.com/korea-yanolj...
#PlatformEconomy #StartupRegulation #startups #Korea #Innovation
Korea Escalates Yanolja and Yeogi Eottae Case, Putting Platform Growth Models Under Scrutiny - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Prosecutors search Yanolja and Yeogi Eottae over coupon ad practices, escalating Korea’s platform probe and raising questions about partner economics.
koreatechdesk.com
March 10, 2026 at 10:07 PM
A data breach turned into a platform reckoning.

The Coupang Quit Rush has now turned into more than just security failure. It is dependency failure.

Because today, trust moves faster than algorithms.
Full story on KoreaTechDesk 🔗 koreatechdesk.com/coupang-quit...
#Coupang #PlatformEconomy
When Platforms Lose Trust: How the ‘Coupang Quit Rush’ Exposed Korea’s Startup Dependency Problem - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
The Coupang Quit Rush reveals how a single platform’s trust collapse disrupted Korea’s startup ecosystem, exposing its deep dependency and governance gaps.
koreatechdesk.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:59 PM
🕵️‍♂️ Korea’s 2025 SME policy audit hits hard.

🔎 Lawmakers expose deep cracks in tech protection, delivery-app fairness & export support.

Full breakdown 👇
#KoreaTechDesk #KoreanStartups #SMEPolicy #InnovationAudit #PlatformEconomy #AItransition
koreatechdesk.com/korea-nation...
Korea’s SME Policy Audit Exposes Deep Structural Flaws in Technology Protection and Platform Fairness - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea’s 2025 National Audit exposes critical flaws in SME policy, revealing gaps in tech protection, platform fairness, and innovation governance
koreatechdesk.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
OnlineFirst - "Pressure and praise as an action research methodology: The case of Fairwork" by Mark Graham, Oğuz Alyanak, Alessio Bertolini, Patrick Feuerstein, Tobias Kuttler, Funda Ustek Spilda, and Jonas Valente:

#platformwork #platformeconomy #digitallabour

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
DoorDash wanted to charge me $17 to deliver a meal (before tip).
In this week’s Tieden Report: The high price of convenience, Rescale spotlight, and a WNBA take.

#TiedenReport #TechNews #PlatformEconomy #DoorDash #WNBA #Rescale
The Middleman Tax: How Tech Hijacked Convenience
It's costing us more than we think
www.tiedenreport.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Building trust in tech isn’t about overselling

It’s about lowering barriers through radical transparency 🛠️

Learn to engineer enterprise ecosystems with high integrity and velocity 🚀

4 weeks. 3 artifacts. Starting Jan 26.

Details: www.linkedin.com/posts/andrey...

#Ecosystems #Partnerships #EEM
#partnerships #ecosystems #strategicclarity #platformeconomy #enterprisegrowth | Andrey Lipattsev
The hardest thing to build in a massive tech ecosystem isn’t the technology. It’s the trust required to align misaligned incentives. Early in my career, specifically when launching unproven APIs at ...
www.linkedin.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Lumping everything under the "sharing economy" label simplifies the phenomenon and hinders effective public regulation.

If we want to understand this ecosystem, we need sharper distinctions.

📄 Read the full study here: doi.org/10.20867/thm...

#PlatformEconomy #AcademicSky #Research (2/2)
doi.org
June 2, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Most platforms are built for growth.

Not for sustainability.
Not for social impact.

But that might be the wrong starting point.
I
n our latest study, we explore platform business models through an Innovation 5.0 lens 🧵👇

#BusinessModels #PlatformEconomy #Innovation5
May 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Earlier this month, the #ILC2025 set the stage for a new global standard on decent work in the #platformeconomy

We're bring the conversation closer to home. Join our webinar as we reflect, realign, & take action on regional priorities

Register: shorturl.at/SZqYQ

🗓️ 3rd July | 🕑 2PM EAT |

#ILO113
June 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM