Plataformas digitais: uma análise sob as lentes da crítica da economia política

Abstract

The article presents part of an ongoing research that aims to analyze the particularities of the social relations that constitute contemporary digital platforms. To achieve this objective, the analysis adopts the lenses of the critique of political economy. Adopting a notion of labor based on its specifically capitalist social form, the article problematizes the concept of digital labor. Afterward, the article analyses some arguments from the contemporary approaches to digital platforms. Lastly, by proposing a new classification for them, the article addresses some controversies of the Marxist debate on the social relations involved in digital platforms.