platformization
The increasing domination of the Internet by a number of large companies whose products function as markets for content.
Noun
- The increasing domination of the Internet by a number of large companies whose products function as markets for content.
- For [Anne] Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms[…]extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit...
- For Miguel Ardanuy, a former participation coordinator of Podemos, the ultimate aim of this “platformisation of the party” is to “construct a different model of party, a party more open and responsive to society, where...
- Conversion into a self-contained platform.
- These developments are framed conceptually by the distinctions between platforms and portals and, in turn, the processes of platformization and portalization. - 2021, Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Timothy...
Origin
From platform + -ization.