Becoming a Platform in Europe

Maurizio Teli is Associate Professor of Techno-Anthropology and Participation at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works at the intersection of participatory design, the analysis of socio-economic inequalities, and critical theories. He investigates how to co-design technologies contributing to commoning practices, with a particular focus on collaborations with grassroots initiatives. He serves in the editorial board and program committee of international journals and conferences in interaction design, co- design, and participatory design. He is now chairing the Center for Sustainability and Digital Transformation at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.Chiara Bassetti is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, and a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). An ethnographer and ethnomethodologist, her main research focus rests on social interaction, cultural phenomena and collaborative practices. Workplace studies, computer supported collaborative work, and socio-technical systems are areas of interest. Further research concerns cooperation, grassroots initiatives and socioeconomic innovation. Since 2012, she has been working in interdisciplinary teams, contributing to the design of artifacts such as digital platforms and complementary currencies. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa - the Italian journal of Ethnography and Qualitative Research.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Socio-environmental determinants of willingness to participate in the collaborative economyChapter 3. The Influence of Demographics, Attitudinal and Behavioural Characteristics on Motives to Participate in the Sharing Economy and Expected Benefits of ParticipationChapter 4. In the scenario of sustainable mobility and pandemic emergencyChapter 5. Why are we still using Facebook? The platform paradox in collaborative community initiativesChapter 6. Designing for MotivationsChapter 7. Towards a political definition of the sharing economyChapter 8. Assessing Perspectives and Opportunities of Airbnb HostsChapter 9. The Open Source Platform Federation business modelChapter 10. Legal and organizational aspects of labour relations in the collaborative economyChapter 11. Mapping the impact: assessment methodologies and policy implications of the Collaborative and Sharing EconomyChapter 12. Rethinking the Stack: New Narratives for an Era of Collective IntelligencesChapter 13. Mapping the landscape of sharing and cooperativism for design research and practice