ABSTRACT
The rapid growth of digital platforms and political cultures in the early 21st century has significantly changed our society. By developing a critical interrogation of the global hegemony of digital platforms. This book analyzes whether the dominant position of the US has intensified an increasingly unequal relationship between a few western countries, of course, driven by the US and the remaining non-western countries. The inception of the discussion of the digital divide, the global digital divide has been primarily associated with the disparities in economic growth among nations, although there are several significant areas, such as political and cultural realms. The current form of platform politics is not only about the massive penetration of platforms in terms of their computational functions, but also about critical junctures with several relevant issues in cultural and commercial values, such as intellectual property, symbolic hegemony, and platform users as free labor.
