Leviathan(s) 4.0: The Political Power of Platforms and Options for Liberation
by Niccolò Cuppini
pp. 129-266 Issue 22 (11,2) July-December 2024 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2024.11.2.7
Abstract
Expanding the growing collaboration between platform studies and infrastructure studies, we argue that platforms shape behaviours into a form of algorithmic governmentality through data accumulation. However, we present how the development of digitisation also raises social forces to overturn the power of platforms. Counter-behaviours, counter-power, exit or democratisation are four paths that are increasingly widespread within society to appropriate or oppose digital governmentality.