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

Vicky Kluzik

Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, 2022, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: gender; Digital platforms; Biopolitics; Infrastructure; Labour; Private sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1636

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