News and Research articles on Disruption

We investigate whether platform companies disrupt local regulations by analysing how cities respond to platform companies and the extent to which they concede to and accommodate them.

KEYWORDS: Platform power, Disruption, Platform regulation, Regulatory disruption, Cities

This paper analyses social media blocking in Brazil, as a consequence of "regulatory disruption".

KEYWORDS: Internet filtering, Internet blockings, Disruption, WhatsApp

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News and Research articles on Disruption

Platforms´ regulatory disruptiveness and local regulatory outcomes in Europe

Disrupting the disruptive: making sense of app blocking in Brazil

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