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The rise of education rentiers: digital platforms, digital data and rents
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The education sector is fast digitalising all of its operations as mentioned in this paper and a large part is driven by proprietary digital products and services developed and offered by for-profit companies that form the education sector.Abstract:
The education sector is fast digitalising all of its operations. A large part is driven by proprietary digital products and services developed and offered by for-profit companies that form the educ...read more
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
TL;DR: In this article, the author starts from the assumption that the capitalist economies of the West are currently suffering from multiple and serious dysfunctions and that these dysfunctionies stem from a misconception.
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The Separation of Platforms and Commerce
TL;DR: Structural separations have been a mainstay element of American economic regulation and have been largely abandoned in recent decades as mentioned in this paper, leading to the potential hazards of integration by dominant digital platforms.
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Covid-19 controversies and critical research in digital education
TL;DR: In this article, financial markets are taken as the main measure of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education since early 2020, then education technology (edtech) has finally arrived with disruptive and...
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Networked learning in 2021: : A community definition
Lesley Gourlay,José Luis Rodríguez-Illera,Elena Barberà,Maha Bali,Daniela Gachago,Nicola Pallitt,Chris Jones,Siân Bayne,Stig Børsen Hansen,Stefan Hrastinski,Jimmy Jaldemark,Chryssa Themelis,Chryssa Themelis,Magda Pischetola,Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld,Adam Matthews,Kalervo N. Gulson,Kyungmee Lee,Brett Bligh,Patricia Thibaut,Marjan Vermeulen,Femke Nijland,Emmy Vrieling-Teunter,Howard Scott,Klaus Thestrup,Tom Gislev,Marguerite Koole,Maria Cutajar,Sue Tickner,Ninette Rothmüller,Aras Bozkurt,Tim Fawns,Jen Ross,Karoline Schnaider,Lucila Carvalho,Jennifer K. Green,Mariana Hadžijusufović,Sarah Hayes,Laura Czerniewicz,Jeremy Knox +39 more
TL;DR: The Networked Learning Editorial Collective (NLEC) published a paper entitled "Networked Learning: Inviting Redefinition" (2020) to open up a broad discussion about the current meaning and understandings of NL and directions for its further development as mentioned in this paper.
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Big Tech: Four Emerging Forms of Digital Rentiership
Kean Birch,DT Cochrane +1 more
TL;DR: In late 2020, the US government initiated legal suits against two Big Tech firms, Google and Amazon as discussed by the authors, and the US Department of Justice and 11 State Attorneys General filed a lawsuit against Google.
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Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook
TL;DR: This article uses case studies of the Open Web, Facebook, and Google to demonstrate that infrastructure studies provides a valuable approach to the evolution of shared, widely accessible systems and services of the type often provided or regulated by governments in the public interest.
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Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation
Paul Langley,Andrew Leyshon +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors place "the platform" as a distinct mode of socio-technical intermediary and business arrangement that is incorporated into wider processes of capitalization, and propose a new form of digital economic circulation, where ideas, knowledge, labour and use rights for otherwise idle assets move between geographically distributed but connected and interactive online communities.
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When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse data as a form of capital that is distinct from, but complementary to, human capital and argue that the collection and circulation of data is now a central element of increasingly more sectors of contemporary capitalism.
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Digital platform ecosystems
Andreas Hein,Maximilian Schreieck,Tobias Riasanow,David Soto Setzke,Manuel Wiesche,Markus Böhm,Helmut Krcmar +6 more
TL;DR: This Fundamentals article first synthesize research on digital platforms and digital platform ecosystems to provide a definition that integrates both concepts, and uses this definition to explain how differentdigital platform ecosystems vary according to three core building blocks.
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Defining, Conceptualising and Measuring the Digital Economy
Rumana Bukht,Richard Heeks +1 more
TL;DR: The digital economy is growing fast, especially in developing countries as discussed by the authors, but the meaning and metrics of the digital economy are both limited and divergent, and there are three scopes of relevance: the digital sector, the IT/ICT sector, and emerging digital and platform services.