platformization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The increasing domination of the Internet by a number of large companies whose products function as markets for content.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For [Anne] Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms[…]extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit Facebook commentary on far-flung websites, allowing Facebook the ability to sell users ads about things they were browsing, and generally connecting the web at large back into the closed Facebook platform."
- "For Miguel Ardanuy, a former participation coordinator of Podemos, the ultimate aim of this “platformisation of the party” is to “construct a different model of party, a party more open and responsive to society, where you do not need a membership card in order to participate”."
- "These developments are framed conceptually by the distinctions between platforms and portals and, in turn, the processes of platformization and portalization."
Etymology
From platform + -ization.
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Inflected Forms
platformisation (alternative)