Outputs (4)

Finance/Security/Life (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, P. (2017). Finance/Security/Life. Finance and Society, 3(2), 173-179. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v3i2.2576

What is the contemporary relation between finance and security? This essay encourages further research into the securitization of finance by developing the notion of ‘finance/security/life’. A focus on the intersections of finance/security/life will... Read More about Finance/Security/Life.

Platform Capitalism: The Intermediation and Capitalization of Digital Economic Circulation (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2017). Platform Capitalism: The Intermediation and Capitalization of Digital Economic Circulation. Finance and Society, 3(1), 11-31. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v3i1.1936

A new form of digital economic circulation has emerged, wherein ideas, knowledge, labour and use rights for otherwise idle assets move between geographically distributed but connected and interactive online communities. Such circulation is apparent a... Read More about Platform Capitalism: The Intermediation and Capitalization of Digital Economic Circulation.

Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces (2017)
Journal Article
Ash, J., Anderson, B., Gordon, R., & Langley, P. (2018). Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces. cultural geographies, 25(1), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474017726556

Digital interfaces, in the form of websites, mobile apps and other platforms, now mediate user experiences with a variety of economic, cultural and political services and products. To study these digital mediations, researchers have to date followed... Read More about Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces.

Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2017). Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding. Environment and Planning A, 49(5), 1019-1039. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16687556

‘Crowdfunding’ is a method of raising money and finance to capitalize projects of various kinds. Drawing on the networking capabilities of the internet and software platforms, those seeking project funding appeal to potentially diverse audiences who... Read More about Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding.