Internet Governance under US Leadership The Internet in China Early Internet Development in China: Leapfrogging the Information Age Political Economy of China’s Digital Platform Giants Distinctive Features of the ‘Chinese Internet’ Model Fragmented Internet Governance and the Risk of a Global Splinternet Conclusion Notes
15 7 Platform Power and the Future of Internet Policy Powerful Platforms The Regulatory Turn and the Return of State Actors Beyond the Platformized Internet Enhancing Competition in Digital Markets Content Regulation and Online Harms Who Regulates? Harmful and Illegal Content Internet Regulation and Media and Communications Policy Platforms as Intermediaries or as Publishers? Differentiating Types of Platforms Conclusion Notes
16 Conclusion Competition, Content, and Data: Three Distinct Points of Platform Regulation Is Internet Governance Possible? The Politics of Platform Regulation Reappraising Regulators Notes
17 References
18 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Domains of Circulation and Platform Types. Source: Langley and Leyshon, 2017, p....Table 2.2 Three Taxonomies of Digital Platforms. Created by author.
2 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Classification of Six Case Studies of Digital Platform Regulation. Created by au...
3 Chapter 7Table 7.1 International Inquiries and Reviews of Digital Platforms up to August 2020. Sour...Table 7.2 Variables Affecting Platform Governance. Source: Owen, 2019, p. 5.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 2Figure 1.1 Ideas, Interests, and Institutions. Created by author.Figure 1.2 Trajectory of a Technological Innovation. Source: Perez, 2010, p. 187.Figure 1.3 The Growth of the GAFAM in the 2010s. Source: Statista, 2019. Licensed under CC ...Figure 2.1 Platforms as a Layer of Applications and Content. Source: Author.Figure 2.2 Platform Business Models Based on Direct and Indirect Network Effects. Source: N...Figure 2.3 Digital Platforms and their Relationships in Media Businesses. Source: Australia...Figure 2.4 Interactions of Digital Platforms with their Users. Source: Australian Competiti...Figure 3.1 Deanonymized User Data. Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, ...Figure 3.2 Trust in Media across 26 Countries. Source: Edelman Data & Intelligence, 202...Figure 3.3 Declining Trust in Newspapers and TV News in the United States. Source: Zuckerma...Figure 3.4 Continuum of Discriminatory and Hateful Speech. Source: Adapted from Cortese, 20...Figure 3.5 Decline in Journalism Employment in the United States, 2008–18. Sources: ...Figure 4.1 Elements of a National Communications Policy. Source: Van Cuilenberg and McQuail...Figure 5.1 The Platform Governance Triangle. Source: Gorwa, 2019a. Licensed under CC BY 3.0...Figure 6.1 Number of Patents Filed for Different Offices by Earliest Priority Date, 1970...Figure 6.2 Top Patent Offices by Number of Applications for Different AI Techniques, and Nu...Figure 7.1 The New Free Speech Triangle. Source: Balkin, 2018, p. 2014.Figure 7.2 European Union Regulatory Typology of Online Services. Source: European Commissi...
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