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#conglomeration — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #conglomeration, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Can “The Violent Artist” Kyle O’Reilly put his #Conglomeration with Orange Cassidy and friendship with Roderick Strong to the side to earn the #1 spot in the Casino Gauntlet Match at #AEWAllInLondon?

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  2. #SuperApps #PoliticalEconomy #Conglomeration #DigitalEconomy: "‘Super apps’ are on the rise. This study explores the characteristics, origins, and manifestations of these apps worldwide, presenting the concept of ‘super-appification’ to describe processes of conglomeration in the global digital economy. Super apps aim to become deeply integrated into people’s everyday lives, capturing and monetising essential activities. By analysing 41 super apps, we identify four distinct types of ‘super-app constellations’, showcasing different patterns and dynamics of conglomeration: ‘Swiss-Army Knife’ apps that consolidate services in one app, ‘Family’ apps that expand through subsidiaries, and ‘Host’ and ‘Hub’-style apps that leverage external developers. This typology offers a comprehensive understanding of the conglomeration patterns underpinning the rise of super apps, involving corporate, development and international expansion strategies. Ultimately, super-appification represents an intensified form of ‘appification’, as these apps increasingly pervade and commodify various aspects of everyday life, such as payment, insurance, grocery delivery, mobility and travel, with significant sociopolitical implications."

    journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

  3. 1/9 Happily, academia, and #openaccess publishing within it, still provides a space for something different to the world of agents, editors and #conglomeration that is depicted in these two recent articles on how corporatisation has impacted the world of #LiteraryFiction: ‘not merely the way #novels were published but also the content of those novels’; as well as how we understand the ‘global literary canon’ of everyone from Albert Camus, William Burroughs and WG Sebald to Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sally Rooney.

    newrepublic.com/article/176458

    theguardian.com/books/2023/nov

    This is largely because, while some academic authors do have agents, there’s not much prospect of individual scholars being a ‘moneymaker’ in the way Stephen King and John Grisham, or even Cormac McCarthy and A.S. Byatt, are, let along the literary estates turned ’commercial assets’ of Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Simenon and Vladimir Nabokov.