Global Platform Governance

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Regulating Big Tech beyond the Trans-Atlantic

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Nanjala Nyabola, Taylor Owen, Heidi Tworek

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This is a field-defining open access playbook for identifying and responding to the global regulatory challenges created by large digital platforms.Here Nanjala Nyabola, Taylor Owen, and Heidi Tworek gather leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to deliberate key issues emerging from digital platforms across four topics: content, data, competition and infrastructure. From hate speech to disinformation, from algorithms to AI, from monopolistic tech giants to disruptive start-ups, and from 5G to cloud computing to the internet of things, this book offers exhaustive coverage of issues related to platform governance. Along the way, it pushes scholarly, practitioner, and policymaker communities to address the global nature of this challenge and to take seriously diverse global approaches to owning and regulating platforms. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of British Columbia, Canada, and McGill University, Canada.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-17
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350580107

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Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, researcher, and policy analyst, and the author of several titles including Digital Demcoracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed, 2018).Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and the Founding Director of the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy, and an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, Canada.Heidi Tworek is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in Public Policy and International history at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her latest book is News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900 – 1945.

Introduction: Global Platform Governance Heidi Tworek, Taylor Owen and Nanjala NyabolaPart I. Content1. The Perils of Platform Determinism: Reimagining Global South Disinformation Interventions Jonathan Corpus Ong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Jose Marie Lanuza (University of Hong Kong, China)2. Online Content Moderation in Latin America Ivar Hartmann (Insper Learning Institution, Brazil)3. Platform Rules and Public Norms David Kaye (University of California Irvine, USA)4. Until the Machine Learns Your Language, You Stay Put: Facebook’s Content Moderation Ecosystem in Ethiopia Berhan Taye (Access Now Africa)Part II. Data5. Data Theatre and the Performativity of Ratings in Platform WorkSiddarth Peter de Souza (Tilburg University, Netherlands)6. MLOps: A Primer for Policymakers on a New Frontier in Machine LearningJazmia Henry (Oxford University, UK)7. Data Architecture of the European Smart Border and Its Discontents Amin Parsa (Lund University, Sweden)Part III. Competition8. Separating the Old Challenges from the New: Competition Law, Digitalisation, and Platforms Pinar Akman (University of Leeds, UK)9. Self-Regulating Platforms and Anti-Trust Justice Elettra Bietti (Harvard Law School, USA)10. Technology Policymaking and Market Dominance: The Case of Safaricom in Kenya Grace Mutung’u (Strathmore University, Kenya)11. China’s Crackdown on BigTech Angela Huyue Zhang (University of Hong Kong, China)Part IV. Infrastructure12. China’s Digital Infrastructures in Africa: Critical EngagementsIgninio Gagliardone (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)13. Algorithms of Suspicion Lilly Irani (University of California, San Diego)14. Technical Infrastructure as an Emerging Terrain of Disinformation Laura DeNardis (American University, USA) and Samantha Bradshaw (Stanford University, USA)15. A Political Economy of China’s Global Digital Infrastructure Hong Shen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)BibliographyIndex