Dall’esposizione all’algoritmo. Forme di organizzazione del consumo nelle piattaforme digitali

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the complex relationship between places, organizational forms of consumption and experience, to understand how it has evolved since the rise of digital platforms. Through a historical-cultural investigation, we try to identify the fundamental historical antecedents of this phenomenon: the first European metropolisation processes and the flâneur. Starting from these, we analyze the functioning of the "platform society" to verify if a form of living based on a contemporary flânerie is emerging in digital environments: a search and searchability typical of the digital sphere, which we call searching.