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The 22 pages that link to Platform economy, each with the reason it gives.

• Welfare stateRelated: Platform work can leave workers outside protections designed around standard employment.

• Network effectNarrower topic: Network effects help explain why platform businesses can expand rapidly and dominate markets.

• Application programming interfaceRelated: APIs can expose platform capabilities to outside developers and businesses.

• Gift economyCompared with: Platforms can present sharing as gifting while monetizing data, attention, or labor.

• Digital laborNarrower topic: Digital labor is one form of work organized within platform-based markets.

• Digital distributionNarrower topic: Distribution platforms control discovery, transactions, and access between producers and audiences.

• Direct-to-consumerRelated: Brands selling directly online can still depend on platforms for discovery, advertising, or transactions.

• PaywallNarrower topic: Platform distribution can affect publishers' control over audiences and subscription access.

• Social commerceNarrower topic: Social commerce makes platforms intermediaries in product discovery, transactions, and customer relationships.

• Web 2.0Related: Web 2.0 services evolved into intermediaries governing online activity.

• Business modelNarrower topic: Platform models shift value creation toward interactions among users and complementors.

• Ride-hailingNarrower topic: Ride-hailing illustrates how platforms coordinate transactions without owning every service asset.

• Service economyRelated: Platforms coordinate large service markets, from transport to accommodation.

• WeChatNarrower topic: WeChat’s integrated services make it a major platform economy case.

• Information societyBroader topic: Platforms concentrate information flows while coordinating markets and social interaction.

• Mobile appRelated: Mobile apps have helped platforms mediate transport, lodging, commerce, and communication.

• Vacation rentalNarrower topic: Vacation rentals depend on platforms whose responsibilities remain contested.

• Fourth Industrial RevolutionRelated: Digital platforms can reorganize how services, labor, and transactions are coordinated.

• TaobaoNarrower topic: Taobao illustrates how a platform can coordinate sellers, buyers, and supporting services.

• Technology and societyRelated: Platforms reshape labor, exchange, and the governance of social interactions.

• Technological convergenceRelated: Platforms combine services such as communication, commerce, and payment within shared systems.

• Pierre OmidyarRelated: eBay’s business model illustrates how a platform can coordinate buyers and independent sellers.