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Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy
September 18, 2023Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner Program and the controversies around the “demonetization” of videos, to understand these arrangements and what happens when they shift beneath creators’ feet. We use the ...