Collaborative platforms and community: What about this blind spot of their design?

For several years now, the digital landscape fills with more and more platforms that are increasingly collaborative. These platforms can be defined as a digital intermediary, an infrastructure coordinating the actions and resources of actors on the basis of socio-technical devices, objectives, algorithms and affordances (Gloor, 2006; Benavent 2016; Gillespie, 2010; Herbert & Collin-Lachaud, 2016). Their collaborative aim can be identified in the register of exchange, participation and sharing.