Digital Dominance

The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av MOORE TAMBINI, Martin Moore, Damian Tambini, King's College London) Moore, Martin (Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute, London School of Economics) Tambini, Damian (Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications

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Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented, and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society. It is increasingly clear that democratic societies require new legal and conceptual tools if they are to adequately understand, and if necessary check the economic might of these companies. Equally, that we need to better comprehend the ability of such firms to control personal data and to shape the flow of news, information, and public opinion.In this volume, Martin Moore and Damian Tambini draw together the world's leading researchers to examine the digital dominance of technologies platforms and look at the evidence behind the rising tide of criticism of the tech giants. In fifteen chapters, the authors examine the economic, political, and social impacts of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, in order to understand the different facets of their power and how it is manifested. Digital Dominance is the first interdisciplinary volume on this topic, contributing to a conversation which is critical to maintaining the health of democracies across the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-07-26
Mått239 x 163 x 30 mm
Vikt839 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor440
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190845124

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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