Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode : Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy - Doorn - - Antipode
▻https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12641
In this article, we argue that the governance of gig work under conditions of financialised platform capitalism is characterised by a process that we call “dual value production” : the monetary value produced by the service provided is augmented by the use and speculative value of the data produced before, during, and after service provision. App‐governed gig workers hence function as pivotal conduits in software systems that produce digital data as a particular asset class. We reflect on the (...)