The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World

by Martijn de Waal, José van Dijck, Thomas Poell

Book Overview

Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth, while bypassing cumbersome institutional or industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190889772
• ISBN13: 9780190889777
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"