Datafication (the quantification of social life) is a colonial move which perpetuates a legacy of appropriation. But how to regulate this?
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This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Tartu, Estonia.
This article distils from the various (proposals for) platform regulation operational principles that can serve as the basis for productive debate on the subject.
This special issue on 'Regulating the sharing economy' includes five papers and an editorial which each contribute to knowledge by linking the social and economic aspects of sharing economy practices to regulatory norms and mechanisms.
This paper discusses self-labelling standards as sharing mediators in pirated versions of movies available online.
The convergence of media markets and the emergence of video-sharing platforms may make the existing regulative tradition obsolete. This essay demonstrates an emergent need for regulatory convergence on European Union’s Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD).
The Netherlands is among the few countries that have put specific net neutrality standards in place. In this op-ed, Nico van Eijk verifies whether the rules are working or if they are just another example of symbolic regulation.
Cloud-based information intermediaries curate information and distribute in a way that fundamentally challenges the right of access to information.