Digital platform economies: Value from data?
Year: 2025
Type: editorial
Abstract: Platform economies are heterogeneous terrain constituted by disparate digital and non-digital elements. Given this heterogeneity, this Themed Issue focuses on a common set of questions to illuminate how “value” is realized on digital platforms: How does data become a value form? How are the artifacts produced by digital platforms translated into value forms? What aspects of digital infrastructures are essential for these translations? How are forms of data-value made actionable (monetized, priced, exchanged, marketed, securitized)? And what are the consequences for conventional approaches to power or governance? Answers to these questions provide insights into the design and actualization of data-valuation practices. Ultimately, they help us to better understand continuities and discontinuities across different modes of digital value production.
Source: Platforms & Society
Authors: Janet Roitman, Andrew Moon, Leila Lin
Institutions: RMIT University, The New School
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $1,125
OpenAlex ID: W4414392091