Geographies of platformisation: work, governance and regulation

Abstract

This present article critically examines the impacts of digital platforms in the contemporary world, structured around three main axes: (i) transformations within the realm of work, analysed from a Marxist perspective, emphasizing precariousness, self-exploitation, and alienation of platform workers; (ii) platform governance, understood as the set of norms and regulatory frameworks intrinsically linked to platformisation, acting across different territorial scales, in coordination or tension with states and society; (iii) regulatory challenges at national and municipal levels, focusing on thespatial implementation, enforcement, and contestation of regulations by formal and informal actors. The research uses bibliographic review and media analysis to demonstrate how digital platforms reconfigure exploitation, control, and power realtions within information capitalism’s socio-spatial fabric.