Real Estate Politik:Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks

作     者：Joanne Cheung 

作者机构：the Haas School of BusinessUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCA 94720USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Social Computing》 (社会计算（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第2卷第4期

页      面：323-336页

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学科分类：0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 

主　　题：social networks social media platform studies financialization urban planning land use 

摘      要：The power of social network platforms to amplify the scale,speed,and significance of everyday communication is increasingly weaponized against *** of social networks predominantly focus on design and its effects on *** article shifts the debate to their business *** as platform businesses,social networks are privately owned public spaces with structurally limited democratic *** from the history,theory,and practice of land use,I develop an analogy between the financialization of land by commercial real estate development and the financialization of attention by platform *** policies,such as incentive zoning and exclusionary zoning,shed light on how platform businesses use systems of measurement and valuation to conflate users’roles,tokenize the incentives that drive behavior,and defer the ethical responsibilities businesses have to the *** the real estate framing reveals social networks’structural flaws and colonial roots,lessons from urban planning,community land trusts,and Indigenous land stewardship can inform their regulation and *** on the broader effort to embed ethics in the development of technology,I describe possibilities to steward social networks in the public interest.