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Online platforms have become integral facilitators of various aspects of human life, including social, economic, cultural, political and even religious dimensions. They exert a profound influence on our values, traditions, systems and processes, fundamentally reshaping the way people interact and engage with the world around us. In the economic realm, online platforms are revolutionising the nature and scope of production, distribution, exchange, consumption and pricing. They have emerged as central pillars of economic systems, wielding significant control over these fundamental processes.

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Nayak, B.S., Walton, N. (2024). World of Platform Economy. In: Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62308-0_2

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