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Regulating Big Tech explores cutting-edge policy innovations that tackle the dominance of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft and the interlocking challenges of contemporary tech regulation.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Damian Tambini and Martin Moore
- PART I: Enhancing Competition
- 1. Reshaping Platform-Driven Digital Markets
- Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Entsminger, and Rainer Kattel
- 2. Reforming Competition and Media Law--The German Approach
- Bernd Holznagel and Sarah Hartmann
- 3. Overcoming Market Power in Online Video Platforms
- Eli M. Noam
- 4. Enabling Community-Owned Platforms--A Proposal for a Tech New Deal
- Nathan Schneider
- PART II: Increasing Accountability
- 5. Obliging Platforms to Accept a Duty of Care
- Lorna Woods and Will Perrin
- 6. Minimizing Data-Driven Targeting and Providing a Public Search Alternative
- Angela Phillips and Eleonora Maria Mazzoli
- 7. Accelerating Adoption of a Digital Intermediary Tax
- Elda Brogi and Roberta Maria Carlini
- PART III: Safeguarding Privacy
- 8. Treating Dominant Digital Platforms as Public Trustees
- Philip M. Napoli
- 9. Establishing Auditing Intermediaries to Verify Platform Data
- Ben Wagner and Lubos Kuklis
- 10. Promoting Data for Well-Being While Minimizing Stigma
- Frank Pasquale
- Part IV: Protecting Democracy
- 11. Responding to Disinformation: Ten Recommendations for Regulatory Action and Forbearance
- Chris Marsden, Ian Brown, and Michael Veale
- 12. Creating New Electoral Public Spheres
- Martin Moore
- 13. Transposing Public Service Media Obligations to Dominant Platforms
- Jacob Rowbottom
- PART V: Reforming Governance
- 14. A Model for Global Governance of Platforms
- Robert Fay
- 15. Determining Our Technological and Democratic Future: A Wish List
- Paul Nemitz and Matthias Pfeffer
- 16. Reconceptualizing Media Freedom
- Damian Tambini
- 17. A New Social Contract for Platforms
- Victor Pickard
- Conclusion: Without a Holistic Vision, Democratic Media Reforms May Fail
- Martin Moore and Damian Tambini
About the author
Martin Moore is Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication, and Power and a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. His research focuses on political communication during election and referendum campaigns, and on the civic power of technology platforms. He is the author of Democracy Hacked (2016) and publishes frequently on media and politics.
Damian Tambini is Associate Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics specialising in media and communications policy and law. He has served as an advisor and expert in numerous policymaking roles for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the UK Government, and the UK media regulator, Ofcom.
Summary
Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/.
Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and curtail the dominance of a few, yet regulatory responses remain fragmented, with some focused solely on competition while others seek to address issues around harm, privacy, and freedom of expression.
Regulating Big Tech condenses the vibrant tech policy debate into a toolkit for the policy maker, legal expert, and academic seeking to address one of the key issues facing democracies today: platform dominance and its impact on society. Contributors explore elements of the toolkit through comprehensive coverage of existing and future policy on data, antitrust, competition, freedom of expression, jurisdiction, fake news, elections, liability, and accountability, while also identifying potential policy impacts on global communication, user rights, public welfare, and economic activity.
With original chapters from leading academics and policy experts, Regulating Big Tech sets out a policy framework that can address interlocking challenges of contemporary tech regulation and offer actionable solutions for our technological future.
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The threat to democracy posed by the concentration of power in digital media markets is one of the great challenges of our time. Regulating Big Tech has assembled ideas for change from some of the best thinkers in the world. It is essential reading for anyone wrestling with the topic.
