The Politics of Platform Regulation

How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvRobert Gorwa,WZB Berlin Social Science Center) Gorwa, Robert (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Leading multinational technology companies like Alphabet, Meta, Twitter, TikTok, and Microsoft now operate sprawling, complex systems to govern online behavior. These technical and bureaucratic infrastructures, commonly termed "content moderation" or "trust and safety," were developed in an effort to keep illegal and harmful material--such as child abuse imagery, hate speech, and incitement to extremist violence--out of sight and out of mind. But recently, they have been mired with scandal, and increasingly are in the public crosshairs.In The Politics of Platform Regulation, Robert Gorwa outlines how governments are shaping the emerging space of online safety. Through case studies from Germany, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, and insights gleaned from ongoing policy debates in Brazil, India, and China, Gorwa explores the domestic and international politics that influence how, why, and when platform regulation comes into being. Going beyond existing work that explores the hidden private rules and practices increasingly shaping our online lives, The Politics of Platform Regulation is a measured empirical and theoretical account of how the state is pushing back.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-17
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt1 090 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Digital Politics
Antal sidor256
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197692851

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Robert Gorwa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and a co-founder of the Platform Governance Research Network. He conducts interdisciplinary technology policy research, with a special focus on emerging socio-technical governance infrastructures and institutions in the platform economy. His widely cited work on platform governance, content moderation, and related topics has been published in outlets like Big Data & Society, Telecommunications Policy, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Acknowledgements1. IntroductionI. Foundations2. Governance by Platforms: Definitions, Histories, Concepts3. Regulating Platform Companies: A Cross-Domain Policy Overview4. Explaining Government Intervention in Content ModerationII. Case Studies5. "What is Illegal Offline, Should Be Illegal Online": The Development of the German NetzDG6. After Christchurch: Diverging Regulatory Responses in New Zealand and Australia7. From Coast to Coast: State-Level Platform Regulation in the United StatesIII. Looking Forward8. Platform Regulation and the Majority World9. ConclusionAppendicesNotesReferencesIndex

Gorwa not only documents the growing effort to regulate social media platforms, he shines a light on how and why states endeavor to pressure or persuade platforms to govern in particular ways. Combining a clear conceptual framework and carefully examined case studies, he reveals the decisions to intervene, the forms those interventions take, and the political will and circumstances necessary to pursue them. It's a sharp and important work.