This article considers challenges to policy and regulation presented by the dominant digital
platforms. A radical democratic framing of the deliberative process is developed to …

This article identifies the current global 'techlash'towards the major digital and social media
platforms as providing the context for a renewed debate about whether these digital platform …

The rise of digital platforms has in recent years redefined contemporary capitalism—
provoking discussions on whether platformization should be understood as bringing an …

A key concern in international policy debates about articulating oversight of digital platform
markets involves policy silos, arising from the scope of platformization and datafication, and …

Over the past decade, a growing body of scholarship in media studies and other cognate
disciplines has focused our attention on the social, material, cultural, and political …

Media agencies have become one of the key actors in the contemporary media industry: by
channelling marketing budgets to some media and some platforms and not to others, media …

Digital platforms are not just software‐based media, they are governing systems that control,
interact, and accumulate. They also solidify markets; that is, social networks of exchange that …

Online digital platforms have deeply penetrated every sector in society, disrupting markets,
labor relations and institutions, while transforming social and civic practices. Moreover …

This paper asks: what are the democratic potentials of the digital commons and the digital
public sphere? First, the article identifies ten problems of digital capitalism. Second, it …

Digital platforms play a central role in the economy and our everyday lives. Their rapid
development since the birth of the public commercial internet over 20 years ago has …