Once upon a time, a machine began telling us the stories of our lives… and humanity lived happily ever after.
This article looks at the basis for use- or content-related takedown of domain names in the terms of services of 30 European country-code top-level domain names.
Management of the internet by the principle of the multistakeholder governance model has survived attempts of replacing it with inter-government management. What additional principles are useful to guide global internet governance and enhance ICANN’s legitimacy, seen in light of recent challenges? Are the disagreements over global internet governance also about diverging understandings of the goals in internet governance?
This paper shows how platforms are transient in the policies, procedures, and affordances and details the implications for politics.
Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?
This paper discusses how online political micro-targeting is regulated in Europe, from the perspective of data protection law, freedom of expression, and political advertising rules.
The current quest to understand the digital society is populated by a plethora of ideas, ranging from catchwords to concepts. This special section establishes a forum to reflect if these are actually worthwhile, provide analytic value and describe something new.
What is platformisation? This article contextualises, defines, and operationalises the concept. Drawing insights from different scholarly perspectives on platforms it develops a comprehensive approach to this process.
Algorithmic governance as a key concept in controversies around the emerging digital society takes up the idea that digital technologies produce social ordering in a specific way.
Ad archives are a novel tool in online advertising governance. They promise significant benefits, but only if their operators address key criticisms.