LEADER 04387nam 22006253 450 001 9911042409803321 005 20250430082725.0 010 $a1-5292-3618-5 010 $a1-5292-3616-9 010 $a1-5292-3617-7 024 7 $a10.56687/9781529236170 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31339490 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31339490 035 $a(CKB)36601512000041 035 $a(OCoLC)1472980612 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_124737 035 $a(DE-B1597)663046 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781529236170 035 $a(Perlego)4315656 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936601512000041 100 $a20241121d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPlatform Politics $eCorporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy /$fLuke Yates 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBristol :$cBristol University Press,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (133 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-5292-3615-0 311 08$a1-5292-3614-2 327 $aFront Cover -- Platform Politics: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Platform Politics -- What forms does platform politics take? -- How can we understand platform politics? -- Organisation of chapters and how to read this book -- 2 Contested Stories of Platform Capitalism: Crisis, Legitimacy and Platform Rhetoric -- The Sharing Economy reflects the crisis -- The rise and fall of the Sharing Economy category 327 $aPlatforms as disruption and avatars of progress: technological determinism and platform possibility -- The Sharing Economy phrasebook: redefining and 'democratising' work, corporations, democracy -- Conflict, struggle, contingency: platform politics as an open struggle -- From platform rhetoric to regulatory struggle -- 3 Trajectories of Struggle around Lean Platforms: Making Sense of Change -- The corporate political activity of lean platforms in context -- Incursion, expansion, habituation: the basis of platform struggle 327 $aPoliticisation, framing and mobilisation: how platforms are problematised and how they respond -- Inhibiting enforcement: non-cooperation, withholding data, stalling and venue-shifting -- Platform power so far -- and the gaps -- 4 The Practices of Platform Power: A Typology -- How new is platform power? -- Temporary mobilisation: coordinating short-term and shallow political engagement -- Curated storytelling: selecting, editing and rehearsing user 'stories' for lobbying -- Front groups: third party activist entities created, resourced and coordinated by companies 327 $aGrassroots alliances: borrowing and co-opting the legitimacy of existing civil society organisations -- Some implications of platform power -- Rethinking platform power -- 5 Manufacturing a Movement: Platform Power at Airbnb -- Introducing the Airbnb Citizen -- Who joins Airbnb's mobilisation initiatives? Recruitment, selection and exclusion -- Searching for the right landlords -- The 'three date model' for activist recruitment -- How is Airbnb affiliated with its landlord activists? Resources, support and independence -- Redefining independence -- Tensions in platform power for platform workers 327 $aRebranding, outsourcing, obfuscating -- 6 The Futures of Platform Politics -- Three arguments about platform politics -- Corporate power, civil society and corporate grassroots lobbying -- Platform possibility -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- References -- Index 330 $aNo detailed description available for ""Platform Politics"". 606 $aGig economy$xPolitical aspects 606 $aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies$2bisacsh 615 0$aGig economy$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies. 676 $a331.2572 700 $aYates$b Luke$01857773 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911042409803321 996 $aPlatform Politics$94458778 997 $aUNINA