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May 14, 2026Open Access

Adaptive Informality in Platform Capitalism: From Reluctant Digitalization to Bold TikTok Commerce in Southern Italy

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BOBrigida OrriaSBSabrina Bellafronte

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Overview

This article rethinks informal economies, exploring bold digitalization and e-commerce in Southern Italy's platforms.

Key Points

  • This research aims to redefine informal economies as vital and dynamic components of capitalism, focusing on digital and platform-mediated exchanges.
  • Qualitative methods and digital ethnography conducted in Naples and the Campania region.
  • Exploration of informal trade practices across platforms like Vinted and TikTok.
  • Theorization of adaptive commerce and bold digitalization.
  • Introduces 'bold digitalization' as a mode of platform-based informality characterized by visibility and performativity.
  • Identifies a platform governance spectrum from transactional on Vinted to affective on TikTok.
  • Links domestic labor, digital precarity, and economic spectacle within informal economies.

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Orria et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0566bda550a87e60a1ebd3https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v16i16s.980
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