Super-appification
Conglomeration in the global digital economy
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6443564 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Fernando N Van Der Vlist (0000-0003-1401-0325, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, autor correspondente), Anne Helmond (0000-0003-4327-4012, Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Michael Dieter (0000-0002-5894-7892, The University of Warwick, UK), Esther Weltevrede (0000-0001-5276-297X, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| Ano | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Fascículo | 6 |
| Páginas | 3314-3337 |
| Data de publicação | 2024-01-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448231223419 |
| OpenAlex | W4390702542 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 6 |
| Referências citadas | 22 |
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
Advertising · Bespoke · Business · Everyday life · Intermediary · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Sharing economy · Sociology · Typology · Underpinning · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Transportation and Mobility Innovations · Marketing
Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture
Super-Sticky Wechat and Chinese Society
The Platform Economy
Going global
Pandemic platform governance
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps
On super apps and app stores
Media power in digital Asia
Hardware and data in the platform era
The politics of 'platforms
WeChat as infrastructure
Seeing like a driver
API Governance
Line as Super App
Multi-Situated App Studies
The Platformization of the Web
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 3 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 6 |