Digital Platform Capitalism and its Regulations: Comparative approaches and future research directions

Event times: 22 June, 13:00-17:00 | 23 June, 9:00 – 17:30 About this event Platform capitalism encompasses various organisational forms: social media platforms that rely on advertising and sales of personalised data; cloud platforms that provide IT infrastructure; product platforms that offer goods/services on demand, and lean platforms that allow the exchange of goods, services, or information owned by others (Srnicek 2017). Over the past 15 years, the rapid rise of such platforms has permeated all areas of daily life, and led to well-documented effects on economies and societies. New socio-political conflicts have emerged around some of those effects, and around the desirability, modes, and forms of regulation of platform capitalism. Complex forms of regulation have emerged – of both pla