In the span of 15 years, the online public sphere has been largely privatized and is now dominated by a small number of platform companies. This has allowed the interests of publicly traded companies to determine the quality of our civic discourse, the character of our digital economy and, ultimately, the integrity of our democracies. This essay series brings together a global group of scholars working in four distinct domains of the platform governance policy discourse: content, data, competition and infrastructure.
Introduction
Platform Governance Needs a Global Response
Nanjala Nyabola, Taylor Owen and Heidi Tworek
Content
Not Just Governors: Platform Rules and Public Law
David Kaye
Until the Machine Learns Your Language, You Stay Put
Berhan Taye
Protecting Online Speech in Latin America: Are Courts the Answer?
Ivar Hartmann
The Exit Option
Chinmayi Arun
Data
European Lessons in Self-Experimentation: From the GDPR to European Platform Regulation
Joris van Hoboken
The Performativity of Ratings in Platform Work
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Governing the Datafication of Black Lives
Mutale Nkonde
World Making and Interoperation of Traveller Data
Amin Parsa
Competition
Competition Law, Digitalization and Platforms: Separating the Old Challenges from the New
Pinar Akman
Antitrust’s Crossroads
Elettra Bietti
Competition and Data Protection among Mobile Network Operators
Grace Mutung’u
How Antitrust Facilitates China’s Goal to Achieve Technological Self-Sufficiency
Angela Huyue Zhang
Infrastructure
How to Understand China’s Globalized Digital Infrastructure
Hong Shen
Beyond the Digital Cold War: Western, Eastern and Southern Tales of Digital Failure and Success
Iginio Gagliardone
Internet Infrastructure as an Emerging Terrain of Disinformation
Samantha Bradshaw and Laura DeNardis
When Managers Rely on Algorithms of Suspicion: Fraud Logics and Their Fallouts
Lilly Irani