`titrebPast, present and potential of collaborative platforms Reflections on cultural production and digital intermediation`/titrebThis article reviews the findings of research carried out since the mid-2000s on the evolution of cultural industries, questioning the hypothesis whereby these last are undergoing a processus of structural and ideological systemization. The aim of this publication is, firstly, to reflect on two concepts mobilized in these works: “collaborative Web” and “intermediation platform”. Moreover, this article is an opportunity to discuss several theoretical (re)discoveries, which allow one to reconsider the conceptions of cultural capitalization and production usually mobilized in the political economy of cultural industries.