This interdisciplinary collection rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them.
It unpacks the concept of 'platform economies' to reveal localised variations in digital markets, identifying the novelty of contemporary platforms and their historical, social and economic characteristics.
Addressing themes like internet decolonisation, the book makes a timely assessment of the impact of evolving connections between technology, information, society and markets.