Digital Platform Regulation

Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communications and Culture at The University of Sydney. He is the author of 14 books, including Regulating Platforms (2021) and Understanding Global Media (2018). Fiona R. Martin is Associate Professor in Online and Convergent Media at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Mediating the Conversation (2022), co-author of Sharing News Online (2019) and co-author and editor of The Value of Public Service Media (2014).

• 1. Introduction by Terry Flew & Fiona R. Martin.- 2.Can Journalism Survive in the Age of Platform Monopolies? Confronting Facebook’s Negative Externalities by Victor Pickard.- 3. Platforms and the Press: Regulatory Interventions to Address an Imbalance of Power by Philip M. Napoli & Asa Royal.- 4. EU Digital Services Act: The White Hope of Intermediary Regulation by Amélie P. Heldt.- 5. Holding the Line: Responsibility, Digital Citizenship and the Platforms by Lelia Green and Viet Tho Le.- 6. Regulating platforms’ algorithmic brand culture: the instructive case of alcohol marketers on social media by Nicholas Carah & Sven Brodmerkel.- 7. Digital Platforms as Policy Actors by Pawel Popiel.- 8. Global platforms and local networks: an institutional account of the Australian news media bargaining code by James Meese & Edward Hurcombe.- 9. Regulating Chinese and North American Digital Media in Australia: Facebook and WeChat as Case Studies by Chunmeizi Su.-10. State actor policy and regulation across the platform-SVOD divide by Stuart Cunningham & Oliver Eklund.- 11. Regulating discoverability in subscription video-on-demand services by Ramon Lobato & Alexa Scarlata.- 12. The Broken Internet and Platform Regulation: Promises and Perils by Winseck Dwayne.- 13. Self-regulation and discretion by Nicholas Suzor & Rosalie Gillet.- 14 Beyond the Paradox of Trust and Digital Platforms: Populism and the Reshaping of Internet Regulations by Terry Flew.