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Smartphones and ‘doing community’ in Bangkok’s platform economy: A Weberian analysis

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New Media & Society

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Abstract

New Media & Society, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1710-1729, April 2026.
This article examines emergent communities of platform-based delivery workers in Bangkok by applying Max Weber’s concept ofVergemeinschaftungor ‘doing community’. Using offline and online ethnographic methods, the authors demonstrate how delivery ...