Publications

Recent publications from the DIESL Lab are listed below. Professor Vili Lehdonvirta’s full list of publications is available on Google Scholar.

Vidan, G. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2019) Mine the gap: Bitcoin and the maintenance of trustlessness. New Media & Society 21(1): 42-59.
Lehdonvirta, V., Kässi, O., Hjorth, I., Barnard, H., and Graham, M. (2019) The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders. Journal of Management 45(2): 567-599.
Ergen, T., Antonucci, L., Arslan, M., Singal, S., Harracá, M., and Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) On Vili Lehdonvirta’s Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control. Socio-Economic Review.
Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MIT Press.
Lehdonvirta, V., Wu, B. and Hawkins, Z. (2023). Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures. Available at SSRN 4670764.
Lehdonvirta, V., Wu. B., and Hawkins, Z. (2024) Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe. 7th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. San Jose, CA, October 21-23, 2024.