• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Governing invisibility in the platform economy : excavating the logics of platform care
  • Contributor: Kluzik, Vicky [VerfasserIn]
  • Published: 2022
  • Published in: Internet policy review ; 11(2022), 1, Seite 1-21
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1636
  • ISSN: 2197-6775
  • Keywords: gender ; Digital platforms ; Biopolitics ; Infrastructure ; Labour ; Private sector ; Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
  • Description: There has been a mounting research output on the social dimensions of the datafication, fragmentation and platformisation of infrastructures. This paper conceptually excavates the logics of "platform care" as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour. Although affective labour provided in private homes cannot be fully hierarchised, sold, nor algorithmically sorted, digital platforms provide short-term techno-fixes to fill in "care gaps", acting as technocapitalist assemblages governing invisibility. There has been a mounting research output on the social dimensions of the datafication, fragmentation and platformisation of infrastructures. This paper conceptually excavates the logics of 'platform care' as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour. Although affective labour provided in private homes cannot be fully hierarchised, sold, nor algorithmically sorted, digital platforms provide short-term techno-fixes to fill in "care gaps", acting as technocapitalist assemblages governing invisibility.
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  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)