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Governing invisibility in the platform economy: Excavating the logics of platform care

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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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  • Kluzik, Vicky, 2022. "Governing invisibility in the platform economy: Excavating the logics of platform care," Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, vol. 11(1), pages 1-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:iprjir:254276
    DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1636
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