Platforms like Google, Amazon or Facebook seek to build up ecosystems of goods and services that close off competitors, turning themselves into monopolies. If they wish to remain competitive, they must intensify their extraction, analysis, and control of data – and they must invest in the fixed capital to do so.
Michele Sorice, Luciano Fasano e Massimiliano Panarari face the transformation of the democratic system in relation to the innovations in the field of communication in their work “Mass media e sfera pubblica”