Public Policy in the Platform Society

Nash, Victoria; Bright, Jonathan; Margetts, Helen; Lehdonvirta, Vili

doi:10.1002/poi3.165

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“…The Internet is driving the development of the so-called platform economy (Kenney & Zysman, 2016), and indeed the platform society (Nash, Bright, Margetts, & Lehdonvirta, 2017). Digital platforms provide a basis for delivering or aggregating services and content from service and content providers to end users.…”

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Should We Regulate Digital Platforms? A New Framework for Evaluating Policy Options

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Gorp²,

Eijk³

et al. 2018

Policy & Internet

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The economic and societal impact of digital platforms raises a number of questions for policymakers, including whether existing regulatory approaches and instruments are sufficient to promote and safeguard public interests. This article develops a practical framework that provides structure and guidance to policymakers who design policies for the digital economy. The framework differs from other approaches in taking the digital business models of platforms as the starting point for the analysis. The framework consists of three pillars, namely determining a platform's characteristics, relating these to public interests, and formulating policy options. The framework then invokes a return-path analysis for assessing how the interventions affect the business model, whether it has the desired effect on public interests, and ensuring it has no undesired side-effects on public interests. The framework puts forward two key messages for current discussions on digital platforms. First, one should look at the underlying characteristics of platforms rather than trying to understand digital platforms as a single category. Second, policymakers should explore existing rules and policy options, as they seem fit to deal with several characteristics of digital platforms in a time frame that matches the rapid development of platform technologies and business models. El impacto econ omico y social de las plataformas digitales resulta en varias preguntas para los creadores de políticas, incluyendo si los acercamientos regulatorios y los instrumentos existentes son suficientes para promover y salvaguardar los intereses p ublicos. Este artículo desarrolla un marco para las pr acticas que proporciona una estructura y orientaci on para los creadores de políticas que diseñan políticas para la economía digital. El marco te orico difiere de otros acercamientos, ya que toma los modelos de negocios de las plataformas como un comienzo para el an alisis. El marco te orico consiste en tres pilares, es decir: determinar las características de una plataforma, en relaci on con estos intereses p ublicos y formular las opciones políticas. El marco te orico despu es recurre a un an alisis de trayectoria de retorno para evaluar c omo las intervenciones afectan al modelo de negocios, si tiene el efecto deseado en los intereses p ublicos y asegurando que no tenga efectos no deseados para los intereses p ublicos. El marco te orico presenta dos mensajes clave para las discusiones actuales acerca de las plataformas digitales. Primero, uno debería examinar las características subyacentes de las plataformas en vez de intentar entender las plataformas digitales como una sola categoría. Segundo, los creadores de políticas deberían explorar reglas existentes de opciones políticas, ya que parecen poder lidiar con varias características de las plataformas digitales en una secuencia de tiempo que concuerda con el desarrollo r apido de las tecnologías de plataforma y de los modelos de negocios.

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Should We Regulate Digital Platforms? A New Framework for Evaluating Policy Options

Nooren¹,

Gorp²,

Eijk³

et al. 2018

Policy & Internet

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“…For example, one important issue involves effective platform governance to guide the platform's enterprises to develop well. Formal or government-based governance is mandatory and generally relies on the action of governments with the direct power to enforce such codes or laws [53,54]. Furthermore, informal or platform-based governance is also important in the platform ecosystem [37,55].…”

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A Tripartite Evolutionary Game Analysis of Enterprises’ Behaviour in the Platform Ecosystem

Han

2020

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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With the rapid progress of digital technology and new business models’ development, the platform ecosystem has not only penetrated every sector in society but also revealed various problems. Platform governance researchers have highlighted its significance, but failed to adequately consider ecosystem participants’ behaviour. This paper aims to explore platform governance’s effects on enterprises’ behaviour in a multiorganisational platform ecosystem context. The tripartite evolutionary game is chosen to construct a mathematical model that integrates the government, platform organisation, and internal enterprises to analyse formal and informal governance’s influence on enterprises’ behaviour in the platform ecosystem. It was discovered that both formal and informal governance can decrease internal enterprises’ opportunistic behaviours. Furthermore, formal governance has stronger effects than informal governance, although informal governance’s effects are more stable. Additionally, self-organisation in the platform ecosystem is another important area of focus. This paper enriches an understanding of platform ecosystems while formulating insights relevant in using platform governance to develop small and medium-sized enterprises.

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“…Platforms' central role in markets also gives rise to questions of regulatory sovereignty (Gorwa, 2019; Nash et al, 2017). Large platform companies have introduced rules and business practices that sometimes diverge sharply from locally established practice.…”

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The Internet and public policy: Future directions

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In January 2021, the editorial team of Policy & Internet changed from the Oxford Internet Institute to the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. This article invites all the past and current editors to contribute to the future directions and discussion of internet and public policy. It is collection of six contributions covering the trajectory of the internet policy research agenda, platform power in the digital economy, algorithms and the need for transparency, media diversity and platform regulation, speech in the age of content moderation and age‐gating the internet. The collection of essays highlights the past 10 years of the journal and paints a clear trajectory for the next era of Policy & Internet.

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Public Policy in the Platform Society

Abstract: . The editorial provides an outline of existing academic research on online platforms; discusses platform labor, platform governance, and platform politics as three key research themes; and discusses the implications for public policy and future research directions.

Cited by 29 publications

References 15 publications

Should We Regulate Digital Platforms? A New Framework for Evaluating Policy Options

Should We Regulate Digital Platforms? A New Framework for Evaluating Policy Options

A Tripartite Evolutionary Game Analysis of Enterprises’ Behaviour in the Platform Ecosystem

The Internet and public policy: Future directions

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