Research articles on GOVERNANCE

Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance

Monique Mann, Deakin University
Angela Daly, University of Strathclyde
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1501

The internet is a forum for geopolitical struggle as states wield power beyond their terrestrial territorial borders through the extraterritorial geographies of data flows. This exertion of power across multiple jurisdictions, and via the infrastructure of transnational technology companies, creates new challenges for traditional forms of regulatory governance and the protection of human rights.

Going global: Comparing Chinese mobile applications’ data and user privacy governance at home and abroad

Lianrui Jia, University of Toronto
Lotus Ruan, University of Toronto
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1502

This paper examines data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions - including the role of the state. It also highlights the role of platforms in gatekeeping mobile app privacy standards.

Russia’s great power imaginary and pursuit of digital multipolarity

Stanislav Budnitsky, University of Pennsylvania
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Aug 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1492

Russian ruling elites’ view of Russia as a great power transcends political leadership and ideology, and directs the state’s advancement of a multipolar digital order.

Back up: can users sue platforms to reinstate deleted content?

Matthias C. Kettemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut
Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 4 Jun 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.2.1484

Can platforms delete whatever content they want? Not everywhere, say the authors of this paper, which shows why certain social networks ‘must carry’ some content – and how users in some jurisdictions can force the companies to allow them into their communicative space.

Data citizenship: rethinking data literacy in the age of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation

Elinor Carmi, University of Liverpool
Simeon J. Yates, University of Liverpool
Eleanor Lockley, Sheffield Hallam University
Alicja Pawluczuk, United Nations University
PUBLISHED ON: 28 May 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.2.1481

In this paper we examine what data literacy means in the age of dis-/mis-/mal-information. We examine theoretical and methodological challenges researchers face when examining these two fields and how we can move forward by sharing our own experience in designing a survey to understand UK citizens data literacies.