Digital Labour in the Platform Economy: The Case of Facebook

Fumagalli, Andrea; Lucarelli, Stefano; Musolino, Elena; Rocchi, Giulia

doi:10.3390/su10061757

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“…This could provide an explanation of the high values generated by the platforms. This continuous monetization of personal data has been described as consumers constantly being at work and thus more or less providing the platforms with "free" labour as for instance described by Terranova (2000) and Fumagalli et al (2018). This is even though personal information seems to be an important aspect for the consumers as stated by Hong and Thong (2013).…”

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“…For instance, the initial sources of data by the user could further be complemented with a next level of aggregation, for instance when data from other users is combined. Even though some scholars refer to free labour by the consumers (Fumagalli et al, 2018), the labour of consumers may perhaps mainly constitute the initial part, e.g. by giving access to the data sources of value and thus shifting them into the domain and control of the platform (i.e., that initial value creation starts inside a platform).…”

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Mind Your Own Business : Understanding and characterizing valuecreated by consumers in a digital economy

Mileros

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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In the context of what is commonly referred to as consumer-centric digital economy, personal data has become the new currency which is utilized by consumers to be granted access to seemingly "free apps" within so-called digital zero-price markets. Simultaneously, there are consumers, known as "content creators", who can generate million-dollar revenues annually. The current understanding of how consumers create and capture value within this new digital economy is scarce and more research is needed to systematically build a basis for creating an understanding of value creation and capture in the consumer-centric digital economy, based on a consumer perspective. The purpose of this dissertation is consequently to explore how consumers create and capture value within a consumer-centric digital economy. The explorative study also serves to obtain an initial overview of the phenomenon and the widely dispersed literature which spans different research fields. The collected data constitute more than 500 articles in combination with empirical data collected from websites. Based on the current literature, central concepts related to consumer-centric digital economy are explained. These include for instance Web 2.0, user-generated content and the consumerto-business relationship. The different concepts are discussed in relation to each other and a trend analysis shows that these concepts are on the rise and have become increasingly popular. The results show that consumers within the digital economy may take different roles, and some create value as business-oriented consumers (i.e., consumers who have a commercial interest). For instance, they make a business out of their participation in the digital economy. Examples are YouTubers, bloggers or creators in virtual worlds such as Second Life. Another, probably larger category is characterized as traditional consumers, for instance they participate in the digital economy through their use of seemingly "free" apps but do not reap any direct monetary benefits. By sharing their personal data, they take part in value creation in a more passive way. The findings also indicate that the level of control, e.g. determined by whether or not value is created within the digital platform, may characterize the prerequisites for value capture. Based on this, a taxonomy for value creation and value capture by consumers in the digital economy is developed. The study also identifies different business model types for business-oriented consumers.

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Mind Your Own Business : Understanding and characterizing valuecreated by consumers in a digital economy

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2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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“…In recent decades, burgeoning materialogy accelerated the process of HAPS industrially, breaking the silence to invest and launch the HAP system projects for providing omnipresent internet access infrastructure [30] . Both in civilian and military, HAP system embodies a noticeable preponderance than terrestrial networks, comparatively larger coverage area, less interference caused by obstacles, and shorter time to deployment.…”

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Overview of development and regulatory aspects of high altitude platform system

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High Altitude Platform (HAP) systems comprise airborne base stations deployed above 20 km and below 50 km to provide wireless access to devices in large areas. In this paper, two types of applications using HAP systems: one with HAP Station (HAPS) and the other with HAPS as International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) Base Station (HIBS) are introduced. The HAP system with HAPS has already received wide recognition from the academia and the industry and is considered as an effective solution to provide internet access between fixed points in suburban and rural areas as well as emergencies. HAP systems with HIBS to serve IMT user terminal have just started to draw attention from researchers. The HIBS application is expected to be an anticipate mobile service application complementing the IMT requirement for cell phone or other mobile user terminals in which the service field of HAPS application cannot reach. After describing and characterizing the two types of systems, coexistence studies and simulation results using both the Power Fluxed Density (PFD) mask and separation distance based methods are presented in this paper. This paper also predicts future trends of the evolution paths for the HAP systems along with challenges and possible solutions from the standpoint of system architectures and spectrum regulation.

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“…For example, Facebook's privacy leaks have caused serious damage to various political campaigns [5]. The study of data resource governance of online platform is becoming a fundamental challenge for the sustainable innovation for the future economy [6].…”

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Structural Holes in the Multi-Sided Market: A Market Allocation Structure Analysis of China’s Car-Hailing Platform in the Context of Open Innovation

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Car-hailing platform governance is an emerging topic of research and practice. The governance of the data-driven platform economy is challenging the research paradigm of competition regulation in the context of open innovation. This research is trying to reveal the market allocation structure of China’s online car-hailing industry from the perspective of personal data allocation by the study of Application Programming Interface (API) of sample platforms. On the basis of the networked nature of personal data allocation via APIs, this research constructs a mathematical model of the edge weight of data resource connections between platforms. Furthermore, this research optimises the structural hole analysis of complex networks to discuss the state of personal data resource allocation in China’s car-hailing industry. Results reveal that there are obvious structural holes within the sample network. When compared with related indicators, we found that accessing personal data resources is an essential component of the sample network competition capability and sustainable innovation. Social media platforms and online payment platforms more greatly impact car-hailing platform competition than other types of platforms within the multi-sided market context. This research offers a research perspective of personal data allocation for further study of competition, regulation and sustainable innovation of data-driven platform economies.

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Digital Labour in the Platform Economy: The Case of Facebook

Cited by 45 publications

References 11 publications

Mind Your Own Business : Understanding and characterizing valuecreated by consumers in a digital economy

Mind Your Own Business : Understanding and characterizing valuecreated by consumers in a digital economy

Overview of development and regulatory aspects of high altitude platform system

Structural Holes in the Multi-Sided Market: A Market Allocation Structure Analysis of China’s Car-Hailing Platform in the Context of Open Innovation

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