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Global Platforms and Local Networks: An Institutional Account of the Australian News Media Bargaining Code
In recent years, researchers have scrutinised the power of digital platforms in the news industry. However, while digital platforms are powerful...
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Regulating Chinese and North American Digital Media in Australia: Facebook and WeChat as Case Studies
As the Australian government has legislated for a ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’ to compel Google and Facebook to pay...
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Sovereign Communication: Realising First Nations’ Media and Information Literacy and Sustainability in Australia
Consideration of First Nations’ sustainability highlights the necessity for an SDG-18 Communication for All. Communication networks and the...
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Laughable Resistance? The Role of Humour in Middle Eastern Women’s Social Media Empowerment
Pranks, jests and comic performances inducing laughter are everyday social media affordances on platforms like Instagram, the image and video sharing...
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Platforms and the Press: Regulatory Interventions to Address an Imbalance of Power
The relatively short relationship between digital platforms and the news media has been characterized by constant evolution and conflict. As the...
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State Actor Policy and Regulation Across the Platform-SVOD Divide
There are rapidly growing concerns worldwide about the impact of content aggregation and distribution through digital platforms on traditional media...
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Media Capitalism and the World of Work
This chapter argues that the world of work remains part of media capitalism. While we experience the world of work through work, we also hold views...
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Beyond the Paradox of Trust and Digital Platforms: Populism and the Resha** of Internet Regulations
One of the paradoxes of the misinformation and ‘fake news’ debates are that they require a greater degree of trust in media, digital platforms and...
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Techlash, Platformization and the Struggle to Govern Online Content
This chapter adopts a comparative approach to examine the techlash and its aftermath. It begins by identifying major themes in the hearings between...
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Introduction
Over the past decade the study of internet governance and platform regulation has evolved into a new, socially engaged regulatory field. This chapter...
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Holding the Line: Responsibility, Digital Citizenship and the Platforms
This chapter analyses examples of conflicts in standards that may illustrate the need for digital platforms to adopt a more proactive approach to...
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The Broken Internet and Platform Regulation: Promises and Perils
A relatively small number of global Internet giants—Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix—have come under intense and ongoing fire...
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Middle-Range Theories and Their Applicability to the Phenomenon of “Terrorism”
The last step in the process diagram (Fig. 3.6 ) is dedicated to the “action arena of the recipients/civil...
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The Return of the Regulatory State: Nation-States as Policy Actors in Digital Platform Governance
This chapter tracks the evolution of Internet governance from the “open Internet” discourses of the 1990s towards the current “policy turn”, and the...
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Literary Writers and Early Sound Film: Experimental Writing
This chapter studies the film industry’s re-evaluations of literary writers with the introduction of synchronised sound, together with the effect of...
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Epistemic Rights and Digital Communications Policies: Collective Rights and Digital Citizenship
The concept of ‘epistemic rights’ marks an important conceptual shift in thinking about the politics of digital technologies, going beyond such...
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Regulating Discoverability in Subscription Video-on-Demand Services
In recent years, the growing popularity of services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ has raised complex challenges for media policy....
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“Millennial Dumplings” at Work: Women’s Emotional and Aesthetic Navigation of Creative Workplaces in US Comedy Drama Series Shrill and Mythic Quest
This chapter analyses how both aesthetic and emotional labour are presented as a vital yet ambiguous part of women’s inclusion in the contemporary...
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A Conceptual Scheme for the Double-Bind Regulatory State
Using an inter-sub-disciplinary approach, this chapter puts together the building blocks of the “double-bind regulatory state”: autonomisation of the...
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The Numbers Game: Social News Analytics
In this chapter, Martin and Dwyer investigate the ambiguities of social media signals and the difficulty of relying on them to determine the value of...