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04939aam a2200553 i 4500 001 D0D77236DB5211ED9E68857C25ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230415010025 008 220419s2022 maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021058948 020 $a 0262047225 020 $a 9780262047227 035 $a (OCoLC)1289919596 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d NTD $d YDX $d W2U $d BECOE $d HF9 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HM851 $b .L444 2022 082 00 $a 303.48/34 $2 23/eng/20220421 100 1 $a Lehdonvirta, Vili, $e author. 245 10 $a Cloud empires : $b how digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control / $c Vili Lehdonvirta. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2022] 300 $a vi, 283 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-272) and index. 520 $a "Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 8 $a The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers. The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants have gone on to rule the Internet like autocrats. How did this happen? How did users and workers become the hapless subjects of online economic empires? The Internet was supposed to liberate us from powerful institutions. In Cloud Empires, digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward. Digital platforms create new marketplaces and prosperity on the Internet, Lehdonvirta explains, but they are ruled by Silicon Valley despots with little or no accountability. Neither workers nor users can "vote with their feet" and find another platform because in most cases there isn't one. And yet using antitrust law and decentralization to rein in the big tech companies has proven difficult. Lehdonvirta tells the stories of pioneers who helped create -- or resist -- the new social order established by digital platform companies. The protagonists include the usual suspects -- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Travis Kalanick of Uber, and Bitcoin's inventor Satoshi Nakamotoâas well as Kristy Milland, labor organizer of Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and GoFundMe, a crowdfunding platform that has emerged as an ersatz stand-in for the welfare state. Only if we understand digital platforms for what they are -- institutions as powerful as the state -- can we begin the work of democratizing them. -- Provided by publisher. 505 00 $g 12 $t Conclusions. $g Part I: $t Economic institutions -- $g 2 $t Reciprocity: the golden rule in cyberspace -- $g 3 $t From reputation to regulation: the birth of a giant -- $g 4 $t The privacy dilemma: maintaining order in a masquerade -- $g 5 $t Death of distance, resurrection of borders: labor markets in cyberspace -- $g 6 $t Centrally planned free markets: programming a Soviet Union 2.0? -- $g Part II: $t Political institutions -- $g 7 $t Network effect: from digital revolutionary to everything emperor -- $g 8 $t Cryptocracy: the quest to replace politics with technology -- $g 9 $t Collective action I: workers of the Internet, unite? -- $g 10 $t Collective action II: rise of a digital middle class -- $g Part III: $t Social institutions -- $g 11 $t The digital safety net: social protection and education in a platform economy -- $g 12 $t Conclusions. 650 0 $a Cyberspace $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Cyberspace $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Digital media. 650 0 $a Central planning. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) 650 6 $a Cyberespace $x Aspect social. 650 6 $a Cyberespace $x Aspect économique. 650 6 $a Médias numériques. 650 6 $a Planification impérative. 650 6 $a Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) 650 7 $a Digital economy. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Internet law. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Competition law. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Monopolies. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Oligopolies. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Central planning. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00850771 650 7 $a Cyberspace $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885795 650 7 $a Cyberspace $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885801 650 7 $a Digital media. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00893716 650 7 $a Power (Social sciences) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01074219 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230415010045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0D77236DB5211ED9E68857C25ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search