Global Platform Governance

Regulating Big Tech beyond the Trans-Atlantic

Nanjala Nyabola (Anthology Editor) , Taylor Owen (Anthology Editor) , Heidi Tworek (Anthology Editor)

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Global Platform Governance

Regulating Big Tech beyond the Trans-Atlantic

Nanjala Nyabola (Anthology Editor) , Taylor Owen (Anthology Editor) , Heidi Tworek (Anthology Editor)

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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.

Introduction: Global Platform Governance
Heidi Tworek, Taylor Owen and Nanjala Nyabola

Part I. Content
1. 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. Data
5. Data Theatre and the Performativity of Ratings in Platform Work
Siddarth Peter de Souza (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

6. MLOps: A Primer for Policymakers on a New Frontier in Machine Learning
Jazmia Henry (Oxford University, UK)

7. Data Architecture of the European Smart Border and Its Discontents
Amin Parsa (Lund University, Sweden)

Part III. Competition
8. 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. Infrastructure
12. China's Digital Infrastructures in Africa: Critical Engagements
Igninio 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)

Bibliography
Index