New edited book: The Economic Lives of Platforms - Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets
Professor Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto are amongst the editors of the new book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets" published on June 26 by Bristol University Press.
The book that is edited along with Anne Mette Thorhauge (Associate Professor at Department of Communication, UCPH), Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen (Associate Professor at Department of Communication, UCPH) and Jacob Ørmen (Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication), is an interdisciplinary collection that rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them.
By unpacking the concept of ‘platform economies’ into locally embedded variations of digital markets, the book identifies what is new about contemporary platforms and what is characteristic of wider historical, social and economic currents. The diverse team of authors employ various analytical approaches, including in-depth ethnographic studies, and theoretical and analytical reconceptualizations of platforms and the industries they encompass. Tapping into current themes including the decolonisation of the internet, this book offers a timely assessment of the implications of emerging reconfigurations between technology, information, society, and markets.
Learn more about the book by following this link.