When cities meet platforms: Towards a trans-urban approach

Cuppini, Niccolò; Frapporti, Mattia; Pirone, Maurilio

doi:10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100042

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“…Indeed, despite the constantly growing number of studies on platform labour, many researchers have proposed a general homogeneous framework or a focus on specific casestudies. In contrast, our analysis shows that it would be important to find the way to bridge the need for a broader conceptualisation of platform labour together with the attention towards empirical specificities (Cuppini et al 2022). In this sense, the analysis of platforms' urbanisation represents the meeting point between homogeneous operations characterising platform capitalism (algorithmic management, data extraction, cost saving through outsourcing) and the varieties of its territorial implementation.…”

Section: The Multiplication Of Platform Labourmentioning

confidence: 95%

Exit, voice, and loyalty in the platform economy of Bologna city

Frapporti,

Pirone

2023

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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In the article, we will explore the impact of platform labour on urban spaces and the new frontiers of unionism by leveraging a ground analysis and theoretical elaborations from the PLUS project. PLUS was designed to analyse the impact of four platforms (Uber, Airbnb, Helpling, and Deliveroo) in seven European cities (Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Lisbon, Paris, London, and Tallinn). In doing so, PLUS supported its sociological investigations with theoretical and historical elaborations concerning the operation of contemporary platforms and the characteristics of the new form of unionism. We will present some results from PLUS, with a focus on the Bologna case, where platform workers express their dissatisfaction with their organizations, attempting to relate their strategies to certain structural aspects of business territorialization within urban spaces. We will draw upon the well-known distinction proposed by Albert Hirschman between exit, voice, and loyalty and adapt it to frame the various strategies that platform workers may adopt.

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Section: The Multiplication Of Platform Labourmentioning

confidence: 95%

Exit, voice, and loyalty in the platform economy of Bologna city

Frapporti,

Pirone

2023

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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“…This does not mean that specificities, differences, contextual and situated factors do not matter. On the contrary, we think that a trans-urban analytical approach should be able to emphasize the contextual dynamics by enlightening the common ground in which they are produced and the particular frictions emerging in the processes of territorialization (Cuppini et al, 2022).…”

Section: Platformed Urban Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Introduction. The Platform Age

Cuppini,

Frapporti,

Mezzadra

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Springer Studies in Alternative Economics

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This two-part work brings together the outcomes of the Horizon 2020 Project PLUS, “Platform Labor in Urban Spaces”. Running from December 2018 to March 2022, which included an extension from December 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this research project investigated the main features and dimensions of the impact of digital platforms on the economy and society, with a specific focus on labour, urban transformations, and welfare. Sixteen partners, including universities, research centres, and cooperatives, investigated the operations of four digital platforms (AirBnb, Deliveroo, Helpling, and Uber) in seven European cities (Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Lisbon, London, Paris, and Tallin). The research involved, in different ways, municipalities, independent researchers, platform managers, and established grassroot unions. The fact that the four abovementioned platforms operate in diverse fields—accommodation, food delivery, domestic labour, and transport—has allowed us to carry out a wide-ranging analysis of the rapid spread of digital platforms across the economy and society.

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“…Here, the individual becomes a recipient for data collection, as well as a new node of information, knowledge and experience (Foley and Miller, 2020). From the perspective of the individual citizen, this assemblage of technology and politics implies new capacities for individualised influence (Leszczynski, 2020: 193), and, at the same time, it creates scattered social and political interactions and productive activities generating a complex and parallel ecosystem managed through a logistics rationality (Cuppini et al, 2022), restricting/selecting access and user capacities.…”

Section: Techno-politics and Hybrid Norms Of Urban Citizenshipmentioning

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Platform urbanisation, infrastructures and techno-politics: The turn towards urban citizenship

Bignami,

Hanakata

2024

Journal of European Studies

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This article analyses how digital platforms challenge and redefine the way in which urban forms of citizenship are shaped. What we call ‘platform urbanisation’ accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic when digital platforms penetrated with increasing rapidity into every aspect of urban life. While these digital platforms have facilitated new possibilities for engagement, access to services, efficiency in processing data, and customising responses to people online and offline, they also pose political challenges related to inequality, privacy, exclusion and social polarisation. Developing a techno-political urban environment built upon inclusion, equality, and respect for the rights of users, necessitates leveraging the potential of digital platforms to empower citizens and acknowledging and incorporating the political nature of this new urban environment. Furthermore, the intersection between the political influence of platforms on the governance of citizens and everyday life has a biopolitical dimension, since the power of platforms is exercised through policies and practices that affect individuals and collectivities. The article clarifies two essential facets of platform urbanisation: (1) the political nature of such a process, which requires a reframing of citizenship and (2) the role of both material and immaterial infrastructures in this process, which serve thus to constitute it as a new biopolitical territory. This conceptual expansion allows us to interpret digital platforms as an inextricable merging of political rationality, administrative techniques and technology.

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When cities meet platforms: Towards a trans-urban approach

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Exit, voice, and loyalty in the platform economy of Bologna city

Exit, voice, and loyalty in the platform economy of Bologna city

Introduction. The Platform Age

Platform urbanisation, infrastructures and techno-politics: The turn towards urban citizenship

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