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The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12596?af=R Abstract

This research starts its journey from a video that failed to be published during the 2009 uprising in Iran. By following data outside the common trajectories of data circulation in the global North, this paper offers new geographical and data imaginations neglected by the universalised understandings of data and its political economy. Consequently, data's behaviour as a thing is thoroughly investigated in the "follow the thing tradition" by scrutinising data as a commodity, its meanings and its associations. Using actor"?network"?theory, the paper highlights data's open and contested character as well as the breakdowns throughout its journey. Following an uncirculated video via its traces sheds light on data's agency in evoking different assemblages and spatialities. It also reflects on the epistemological importance of not treating the Southern data as exceptional and calls for a theoretical landscape that does not leave many realities of data out in its homogenised universal narrative.

» Author: 2> <p>Digital platforms are a nearly ubiquitous form of intermediary and infrastructure in society. By positioning platforms in the geographical political economy/ecology literature, this paper provides a critical analysis of platforms as a domin

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