Research articles on INFRASTRUCTURE & STANDARDS

The many shades of open banking: A comparative analysis of rationales and models

Giuseppe Colangelo, University of Basilicata
Pankhudi Khandelwal, European University Institute
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Jan 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.1.1821

Despite its growing success and widespread adoption around the world, open banking (OB) struggles to present a coherent identity. Since OB is driven by various justifications, identifying the primary motivations behind regulatory initiatives is crucial for assessing whether the implemented features align with the intended policy objectives.

AI-generated journalism: Do the transparency provisions in the AI Act give news readers what they hope for?

Stanislaw Piasecki, University of Amsterdam
Sophie Morosoli, University of Amsterdam
Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
Laurens Naudts, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 23 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.4.1810

This article evaluates how to reconcile AI Act’s Art. 50 transparency provisions applicable to AI-generated text with news readers’ perceptions of manipulation and empowerment.

The European approach to regulating AI through technical standards

Mélanie Gornet, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Winston Maxwell, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Jul 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.3.1784

The AI Act will require high-risk AI systems to comply with harmonised technical standards, including for the protection of fundamental rights: what problems might arise when mixing technical standards and fundamental rights?

Introduction to the special issue on Locating and theorising platform power

David Nieborg, University of Toronto
Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam
Robyn Caplan, Duke University
José van Dijck, Utrecht University
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1781

Against the backdrop of ongoing public and political debates about the power and regulation of large platform conglomerates, this special issue presents critical, conceptual, and empirical studies that home in on the various modalities of platform power.

The contingencies of platform power and risk management in the gig economy

Niels van Doorn, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1778

This paper demonstrates how gig platforms can become both a resource for risk management and a new source of risk, depending on the complex interaction between a platform’s labour management strategies on the one hand and the mix of support structures and dependencies in a worker’s life on the other.

This paper empirically explores how AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud strategically attempt to operationalise infrastructural power in AI development and implementation through their ecosystems for cloud AI.

This article critically interrogates the increasing importance of connectivity protocols for how they shape and prefigure dynamics of platform power, as dominant actors in the tech sector collaborate on the issue of smart home and Internet of Things interoperability in efforts to maintain their market power and demonstrate their ability to regulate themselves.

Platforms´ regulatory disruptiveness and local regulatory outcomes in Europe

Eliska Drapalova, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Kai Wegrich, Hertie School
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1745

We investigate whether platform companies disrupt local regulations by analysing how cities respond to platform companies and the extent to which they concede to and accommodate them.