Platformization of Urban Life

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Platformization of Urban Life is written by Anke Strüver and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839459648 (ISBN 10) and 9783839459645 (ISBN 13).

The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.