TikTok is at the centre of a geopolitical contest between the US and China. What can this platform controversy tell us about the future distribution of power in the digital environment?
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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.
Intermediary liability
The President and free speech: consequences of Twitter’s fact-checking indication
Since Twitter labelled a tweet by Donald Trump as ‘potentially misleading’ and indicated that it was fact-checking the statement made, the US President signed an ‘ Executive Order'. Amélie Heldt finds that far from being new, the situation illustrates how torn we are when it comes to intermediary immunity or rather liability.
This article highlights what we know about the empirical effects of data-campaigning in political campaigns and how those findings fail to live up to claims about its power.
Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.
Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?
Why did China’s Alibaba platform reform its enforcement practices in line with demands from the US government and US companies?
This paper compares two controversies in social media governance and argues that social media companies’ actions indicate an expanded role for marketing and advertising as arbiters of the public interest in media content delivery.
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
This paper provides qualitative analysis of Google’s and Microsoft’s policies and examines case studies to enhance understanding about the privacy role of information intermediaries in self-regulatory arrangements.
