Homepage

The contemporary socio-economic context is highly dynamic and an expression of key digital and physical transformations. Within this panorama, digital platforms play a dominant role, imposing their power on economic and social processes. They also influence personal and institutional communications, regulatory and institutional structures, consumer behaviour and, last but not the least, have a strong impact on the payment system and the management of so-called dual-entry markets. The current COVID-19 pandemic has also brought into sharp relief both these rapidly unfolding transformations as well as points of constraints.

The virtual seminar will investigate these phenomena in the contexts of emerging platform societies, i.e. parts of the world that are not considered to be the front runners of the digital platform revolution. We will start with (but not be restricted to) the cases of India and Italy.

Guiding questions include:
• What are the contours of emerging platform societies?
• What continuities and ruptures must be considered in understanding the current form of these emerging platform societies?
• How do the experiences of such platform societies inform our understanding of platform societies elsewhere?

The seminar will involve interdisciplinary experts from the academic world in a series of virtual meetings to understand how society, economics, law, politics and technological design shape and interact with the current process.




Tip: if you are joining us from outside Italy, you can use this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time https://www.timeanddate.com[…]ies=339,176,136,179,137,237