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legislation, and including provisions on online platforms being required to remove illegal content, which may end up being …
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Recent European policy papers call for the consideration of human values in the design of information technology. Value Sensitive Design (VSD) provides a framework for systematically accounting for values in the design of technical artefacts. This paper examines how the distribution of power...
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In the international digital platform market, a handful of US companies enjoy immense cultural, economic and political power. The short form video platform TikTok provides significant competition to these US incumbents but so far policymakers have focused on the geopolitical implications of...
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The growing power of digital platforms raises the question of democratic control or at least containment. In light of … the transforming impact of platforms on markets, the public sphere, elections, and employment conditions, governments, and … algorithmic ordering promises to limit the power of platforms by subjecting their hidden operations to regulatory inspection. This …
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Recently, development scholars have begun to study the platform economy. In Latin America, platformisation has resulted in the widespread reorganisation of business practices across many sectors, with important implications for incumbent industries, labour and social processes. These changes...
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Platform power is a societal concern on many levels. Thus, we argue that addressing it with the common market competition approach is limited. The research we present aims to develop and test an alternative approach to conceptualising and assessing platform power. We propose a framework that...
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high-profile incidents and to focus on the largest, US based platforms. In order to contribute to informed policymaking …
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reinforcing a top-down perspective of platformisation centred on distribution platforms like app stores, we focus on often … complex relationship between game makers and the platforms they use. …
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, have encountered challenges in developing regulations aimed at platforms. This research investigates the development of the … UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) as a key case to examine government capacity for regulating digital platforms. It explores … the dynamics between the UK government and platforms, revealing persistent resource asymmetries that not only challenge …
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a contribution to the important debate on the interaction of states and platforms in governing online content. …
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