How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control
Vili's bio: Vili Lehdonvirta is a Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research examines how digital technologies are used to reshape the organization of economic activities in society, from gig platforms to online marketplaces and virtual currencies to crowdfunding. 
Link to the book, Cloud Empires: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047227/cloud-empires/">https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047227/cloud-empires/</a> 
Vili's website at the OII: <a href="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/vili-lehdonvirta/">https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/vili-lehdonvirta/</a> 
Vili at Twitter: @ViliLe
Vili at Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vililehdonvirta/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/vililehdonvirta/</a>

Will blockchains disintermediate platforms? with Hanna Halaburda

We bring the latest discoveries from the field platform research right into your preferred podcasting app.

Digital platforms are omnipresent in almost all of our daily activities – from booking a fitness class to sending or watching a video clip, going through calling a cab, and ordering a pizza…even listening to this podcast – are mediated by multi-sided platforms.

Talking About Platforms is the place where we discover and try to make sense of the underlying mechanisms that have enabled and facilitated the rise of the platforms. We enter a critical discussion on what they can become for people, companies, and our society.

In every episode we welcome a platform scholar who will share with us one of his/her latest pieces of research, making it accessible to everyone and chatting with us on what platforms are and where they may go in the future.