What are the informal arrangements governing online content on platforms in Europe, and what are the factors that make them more or less successful?
Manufacturers of “smart goods” can remotely alter or destroy software-enabled devices to further their corporate interests, a form of post-purchase control termed “bricking”.
This paper explores the social, demographic and attitudinal basis of consumer support for a Copyright Compensation System (CCS), which, for a small monthly fee would legalise currently infringing online social practices such as private copying from illegal sources and online sharing of copyrighted works.
Data ethics has gained traction in policy-making. The article presents an analytical investigation of the different dimensions and actors shaping data ethics in European policy-making.
Net neutrality consultations that tap into networked publics rest on a thin version of participation that maintains existing inequality.
The German Network Enforcement Act is an attempt to counteract the effects of hate speech on social media platforms. This paper analyses and evaluates the reports on the handling of complaints about unlawful content after its coming into force.
This issue brings together a selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology section of the IAMCR conference in 2018.
Operationalisation of communication rights in the context of Finland highlights major challenges that digitalisation poses to democracy.
How do we construct and deliver data privacy rights? We discuss two recent Australian initiatives on regulation of digital platforms and a new consumer data right.
Zero rating has emerged as one of the most contentious communications policy debates of the last decade. The offer of ‘free’ access to select applications compromises network neutrality, at the same time as it can present advantages to users with limited economic resources. How can we attempt to reconcile these conflicting dimensions of zero rating?