Understanding Racism in Digital Capitalism. Racialisation and De-Racialisation in Platform Economies, Infrastructural Racism and Algorithmic Opacity

Authors

  • Stefania Animento Humboldt University Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1459

Keywords:

platform labour, racism, migration, digital capitalism, platform capitalism, racialisation, Uber

Abstract

Recent literature has argued that digital technologies reinforce existent inequalities along race, class and gender. However, the relationship between digital capitalism and racism is yet to be explored in depth. How does digitalisation rework social relations and social cooperation to produce new forms of racialised hierarchisation and differentiation? The article is based on an international project on platform labour spanning seven European cities. It focuses on the sector of ride-hailing in Berlin and analyses the interactions between processes of platformisation and (de-)racialisation. Finally, it shows how racism becomes infrastructural when platforms organise its circulation.

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Author Biography

  • Stefania Animento, Humboldt University Berlin

    Stefania Animento is a post-doctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her work is about migration, racism, labour, and digitalisation. She wrote her PhD thesis on the access to labour and housing of post-2008 European migrants in Berlin. Further, she worked on the project “Platform Labour in Urban Spaces” (https://project-plus.eu/), which investigated the impact of platformisation on labour across seven European cities.

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Published

2024-04-26

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2024)

Section

Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism 3: Domination in Digital Capitalism

License

tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.