Project
The Platform Economies Research Network is a research and learning collaboration that focuses on the socio-technical bases of platform economies. PERN members conduct programmatic research on a variety of digital platforms and processes to gain insight into how data becomes a value form. These platforms include information infrastructures and computational technologies (e.g., cloud-based services), new financial technologies (e.g., fintech), and emerging practices for automated pricing, taxation, and risk assessment. Our goal is to gain new competencies and devise innovative methods for empirical research into core aspects of computational technologies and infrastructures of platform economies through sustained collaboration. PERN is international and interdisciplinary, with members located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and East Asia, and includes scholars from anthropology, economic sociology, historical studies, information science, political science, and media studies. PERN provides support to members and collaborators and hosts regular online meetings devoted to open-ended discussion of works-in-progress. PERN also runs a live-streamed Salon series that brings these conversations to a broader audience.
For more information about the Platform Economies Research Network, please visit platformeconomies.net.