Digital platform economies: Value from data?

Platform economies are heterogeneous terrain constituted by disparate digital and non-digital elements. Given this heterogeneity, this Themed Issue focuses on a common set of questions to illuminate how “value” is realized on digital platforms: How does data become a value form? How are the artifacts produced by digital platforms translated into value forms? What aspects of digital infrastructures are essential for these translations? How are forms of data-value made actionable (monetized, priced, exchanged, marketed, securitized)? And what are the consequences for conventional approaches to power or governance? Answers to these questions provide insights into the design and actualization of data-valuation practices. Ultimately, they help us to better understand continuities and discontinuities across different modes of digital value production.