The Janus faces of Silicon Valley
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"The Janus faces of Silicon Valley" refers background in this paper
...Scholars have drawn attention to the way responsibilities of governance once contained in the public sector are distributed or shared among numerous public and private actors (Avant et al., 2010; Risse, 2011; Strange, 1996)....
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"The Janus faces of Silicon Valley" refers background in this paper
...At the same time, scholars in other fields, including law (Khan, 2018; Srinivasan, 2019), science and technology studies (Vaidyanathan, 2011; Zuboff, 2019) and communication and media studies (Gillespie, 2010; Helmond, 2015; Nieborg & Poell, 2018) have made significant contributions to theorizing…...
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...Indeed, in ‘surveillance capitalism,’ data provided by platform users are leveraged to generate revenue from customers (Ryall, 2013; Zuboff, 2019)....
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"The Janus faces of Silicon Valley" refers background in this paper
...At the same time, scholars in other fields, including law (Khan, 2018; Srinivasan, 2019), science and technology studies (Vaidyanathan, 2011; Zuboff, 2019) and communication and media studies (Gillespie, 2010; Helmond, 2015; Nieborg & Poell, 2018) have made significant contributions to theorizing the platform companies, publishing principally in the disciplinary journals of these fields....
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...Executives from Facebook argued simultaneously that the platform was an inherently neutral public sphere insofar as its content was determined by algorithms—a claim that draws on the connotations of ‘platform’ as a mere support for the activities of others (Gillespie, 2010)—and also that it could not constitute a public sphere at all insofar as the content displayed was different for each individual (Manjoo, 2018)....
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...It suggested that the companies would be supporting those who stood on their platforms, when in fact the companies would come to control the people and businesses who depend on them (Gillespie, 2010, p. 350)....
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...They began to refer to the combined results of these mergers—whether between firms or within corporate product lines—as ‘platforms’ and to themselves as ‘platform companies’ (Gillespie, 2010)....
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...…including law (Khan, 2018; Srinivasan, 2019), science and technology studies (Vaidyanathan, 2011; Zuboff, 2019) and communication and media studies (Gillespie, 2010; Helmond, 2015; Nieborg & Poell, 2018) have made significant contributions to theorizing the platform companies, publishing…...
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"The Janus faces of Silicon Valley" refers background in this paper
...Scholars have drawn attention to the way responsibilities of governance once contained in the public sector are distributed or shared among numerous public and private actors (Avant et al., 2010; Risse, 2011; Strange, 1996)....
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