commodities and digital activity practices (Laguerre, 2005). Those practices engaged the individual citizens, city infrastructure, and urban space, locking them into the global interactive nodes. On the forefront of this development process is the city itself: its services, goods, infrastructure, houses and its image are anticipated and communicated via the virtual world. The platform commerce allows enterprises, sellers, retailers, and customers to be brought together in a ‘one-stop market’, through which the values creation happens on the website to accelerate the circulation of a commodity, people, and capital. This paper empirically questions the effects of platforms virtual connectivity by defining the specifics of digital places and the imprints of its virtual geography on the urban geographic nodes of Italian regions. Therefore, the research design is a qualitative approach, aiming to observe the induction of the virtual connectivity services of Airbnb platform in comparison to Amazon and its implications on Italy. The findings support the theory that the corporative economic geography is a planetary urbanization (Taylor, 2017)]. The platforms interwove small sized Italian cities to the virtual commodity process, introducing them to the market as business models and products. Cities are becoming a digitally consumed commodity, with its infrastructure, homes, services and its visual identity offered in the virtual world for consumption. These virtual platforms servers generate both new services such as ‘delivery in one hour’ and new products - such as the “authentic local house” - whilst introducing the Local into global connectivity, on the cloud, and as physically inter-connected urban networks. This has resulted in a transition to a complete and accelerated commodification urban process, ruled by the digital economy, within people, territories, and experiences that are being packaged for trading.
Platforms Urbanism, as commodification device A critical review of platforms effects on the Italian cities geography / Hussein, Heba. - (2018). (Intervento presentato al convegno THE 5TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 2018 (GCEG 2018) tenutosi a Cologne, Germany).
Platforms Urbanism, as commodification device A critical review of platforms effects on the Italian cities geography
Heba Hussein
2018
Abstract
commodities and digital activity practices (Laguerre, 2005). Those practices engaged the individual citizens, city infrastructure, and urban space, locking them into the global interactive nodes. On the forefront of this development process is the city itself: its services, goods, infrastructure, houses and its image are anticipated and communicated via the virtual world. The platform commerce allows enterprises, sellers, retailers, and customers to be brought together in a ‘one-stop market’, through which the values creation happens on the website to accelerate the circulation of a commodity, people, and capital. This paper empirically questions the effects of platforms virtual connectivity by defining the specifics of digital places and the imprints of its virtual geography on the urban geographic nodes of Italian regions. Therefore, the research design is a qualitative approach, aiming to observe the induction of the virtual connectivity services of Airbnb platform in comparison to Amazon and its implications on Italy. The findings support the theory that the corporative economic geography is a planetary urbanization (Taylor, 2017)]. The platforms interwove small sized Italian cities to the virtual commodity process, introducing them to the market as business models and products. Cities are becoming a digitally consumed commodity, with its infrastructure, homes, services and its visual identity offered in the virtual world for consumption. These virtual platforms servers generate both new services such as ‘delivery in one hour’ and new products - such as the “authentic local house” - whilst introducing the Local into global connectivity, on the cloud, and as physically inter-connected urban networks. This has resulted in a transition to a complete and accelerated commodification urban process, ruled by the digital economy, within people, territories, and experiences that are being packaged for trading.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
