Digital Communication 3209F/G Lecture 5: 5
14 Dec 2019
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Digital materialism and digital labour: guertin | western u | dc3209 | 02 dec 19. Moving day = friends + pizza and beer! The very word social" associated with media implies that platforms are user-connected and that they facilitate communal activities, just as the term participatory" emphasizes human collaboration. Miller calls these commercialized and increasingly privatized platforms anti- social media (qiu 298) What does platform cooperativism have to do with it: can you define it, what is it, mckenzie wark proposed that the modes of production that we appear to be entering are not quite capitalism as classically described. This is not capitalism, he said, this is something worse. (scholz, platform. Cooperativism vs the sharing economy : https://medium. com/@trebors/platform- cooperativism-vs-the-sharing- economy-2ea737f1b5ad ) Platform cooperativism: a platform cooperative, or platform co-op, is a cooperatively owned, democratically governed business that establishes a computing platform, and uses a website, mobile app or a protocol to facilitate the sale of goods and services.
