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
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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.
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.
This paper shows how platforms are transient in the policies, procedures, and affordances and details the implications for politics.
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?
Ad archives are a novel tool in online advertising governance. They promise significant benefits, but only if their operators address key criticisms.
What are the informal arrangements governing online content on platforms in Europe, and what are the factors that make them more or less successful?
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.
The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.