This is a field-defining open access playbook for identifying and responding to the global regulatory challenges created by large digital platforms.

Here Nanjala Nyabola, Taylor Owen, and Heidi Tworek gather leading scholars and practitioners from around the world to deliberate key issues emerging from digital platforms across four topics: content, data, competition and infrastructure. From hate speech to disinformation, from algorithms to AI, from monopolistic tech giants to disruptive start-ups, and from 5G to cloud computing to the internet of things, this book offers exhaustive coverage of issues related to platform governance. Along the way, it pushes scholarly, practitioner, and policymaker communities to address the global nature of this challenge and to take seriously diverse global approaches to owning and regulating platforms.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of British Columbia, Canada, and McGill University, Canada.

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, researcher, and policy analyst, and the author of several titles including Digital Demcoracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed, 2018).

Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and the Founding Director of the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy, and an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, Canada.

Heidi Tworek is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in Public Policy and International history at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her latest book is News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900 – 1945.