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Sixth platEU reflection ‘Revision of Amazon purchase of MGM: The beginning of showdown with tech giants?’ has been published
The sixth platEU reflection entitled ‘Revision of Amazon purchase of MGM: The beginning of showdown with tech giants?’ by authors Paško Bilić and Benjamin Birkinbine has been published at the website of the platEU project. Harmful economic, political, social and cultural practices of platform business models continue to attract a lot of attention in academic and policy debates. While there is still no clear blueprint on how to regulate, major companies continue to grow their businesses to harness economies of scale and network effects. This platEU reflection discusses the purchase of MGM by Amazon for $8.45 billion and the consequences it might have for regulating platforms in the US and the EU.
Report on the round table ‘Creative Labour as Platform Work: Infrastructures and Interactions’ held in Rijeka
Platforms have become ubiquitous in our daily lives influencing both our personal and our working spheres in multifaceted ways. With the growth of online platforms, new modes of platform-mediated working have been developed, thus, opening space for what is called ‘gig work’, ‘platform work’, ‘virtual work’, ‘digital labour’ etc. Research on the gig economy show global inequalities in the type of work done and relationships to work, levels of state regulation and data protection, as well as worker power. However, within the literature on the gig work, platform work and digital labour in general, there has been a lack of focus on the platform-mediated creative work.