Platformization of Chinese Society: Capital, Labor and Technology

Social platformization is not a reality, it is an ongoing process that describes the commercialization logic of the platform entering the opera-tion of the social system and influencing and controlling it. Based on this back-ground, this paper examines the impact of commercial platforms on China and their mechanisms of action. The purpose of the study is to clarify the impact and the mechanism of business platforms on the Chinese society. By using a qualitative research approach, the study finds that, the capital subject behind the commercial platform actively promotes the platformization of the society to revolutionize capital accumulation process. Its purpose is to make the platform a daily life, and promote the isomorphism of the words of "surplus labor" and "labor reproduction", so as to realize the exploitation and grab of surplus value covertly. Commercialization is the essential core of platform logic. In the turning process of social platformization, the capital forces enhance the platform stickiness of the people with the help of the joint force of "data+algorithm", penetrate into the bottom of daily life through the infrastructuralization of platform, and then carry out virtual social integration based on the delocalized organizational structure of the platform, so as to re- alize the transformation of platformization of social relations and social struc- ture. The adjustment of social power structure is the essential consequence of social platformization. The conclusions of this paper are that, the rise of private power on platform has impacted the public power of the state and the government, and the essential attribute of profit-seeking capital will result in some potential public crisis to the whole society.