Platform Co-operatives: the new social economy?

As Internet giants like Facebook and Twitter sprawl across and into masses of lives, the coop sector has been historically relatively stranded in small scale hard reality enterprises, even though many participate in federations and many others, like our own worker co-op LibraInfoknowledge,net, have long existed online. Things are changing now that a new breed of co-ops called platform co-ops have emerged taking co-op ownership and control to an unprecedented scale. For more about this emergence and the opportunity for co-ops to lead the social economy into the future see Trebor Scholz "Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy" at books.google.ca.