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spir-13509	van der Vlist, Fernando ; Helmond, Anne; Dieter, Michael; Weltevrede, Esther	SUPER-APPIFICATION: CONGLOMERATION IN THE MOBILE ECOSYSTEM	2023.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1434	106	48	While the term super app can be ambiguous, reflecting industry hype and speculative investment (Pitre, 2022), it nevertheless speaks to the complexity of conglomeration processes occurring in the mobile ecosystem. With their capacity to merge and expand services and users within a single unified experience, emerging studies of super apps have focussed on themes of enclosure and media concentration as they intensify the “appification” of everyday life (Morris & Elkins, 2015; Morris & Murray, 2018) and take on the role of a seemingly indispensable critical infrastructure (Athique, 2019, Dieter et al., 2021).	cache/spir-13509.pdf	txt/spir-13509.txt