Digital Dominance

Martin Moore is Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College London, and a Senior Research Fellow at King's. His research focuses on political communication during election and referendum campaigns, and on the civic power of technology platforms. He is the author of The Origins of Modern Spin (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) and Tech Giants and Civic Power (2016), and publishes frequently on the media and politics.Damian Tambini is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. He has served as an advisor and expert in numerous policymaking roles for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the UK Government, and the UK media regulator, Ofcom. He has published numerous articles and books on the topic of communication, policy, and politics, including Codifying Cyberspace (Routledge, 2008).

• Contents Introduction, Martin Moore and Damian TambiniSection 1: Economy1. The Evolution of Digital Dominance: how and why we got to GAFAPatrick Barwise and Leo Watkins2. Platform dominance: the shortcomings of antitrust policyDiane Coyle3. When data evolves into market power - data concentration and data abuse under competition lawInge Graef4. Amazon - An Infrastructure Service and Its Challenge to Current Antitrust LawLina M. KhanSection 2: Society5. Platform reliance, information intermediaries and news diversity: A look at the evidenceNic Newman and Richard Fletcher6. Challenging diversity - social media platforms and a new conception of media diversityNatali Helberger7. The Power of Providence: the role of platforms in leveraging the legibility of users to accentuate inequalityOrla Lynskey8. Digital agenda setting: re-examining the role of platform monopoliesJustin Schlosberg9. Free Expression? Dominant information intermediaries as arbiters of internet speechBen Wagner10. The Dependent Press: how Silicon Valley threatens independent journalismEmily BellSection 3: Politics11. Social media power and election legitimacyDamian Tambini12. Manipulating Minds: the power of search engines to influence votes and opinionsRobert Epstein13. I vote for - how search informs our choice of candidateNick Diakopoulos, Daniel Trielli, Jennifer Stark, and Sean Mussenden14. Social Dynamics in the Age of Credulity: the misinformation risk and its falloutFabiana Zollo and Walter Quattriociochi15. Platform Power and Responsibility in the Attention EconomyJohn NaughtonConclusionDamian Tambini and Martin Moore

In the backdrop of the complex world that we live in, Digital Dominance: The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, offers all readers the opportunity to learn about how the entire digital infrastructure is controlled by corporations while also posing many unanswered questions facing the future of the web. While a large number of users of social media today in the developing world are oblivious to the various concerns raised in the book, it is important for those who are at the helm of digital policymaking and those who are concerned with issues around internet governance to read this book without fail