Reframing platform power

Artikel

This article addresses the problem of platform power by probing current regulatory frameworks' basic assumptions about how tech firms operate in digital ecosystems. Platform power is generally assessed in terms of economic markets in which individual corporate actors harness technological innovations to compete fairly, thereby maximising consumer welfare. We propose three paradigmatic shifts in the conceptualisation of platform power. First, we suggest to expand the notion of consumer welfare to citizen wellbeing, hence addressing a broader scope of platform services' beneficiaries. Second, we recommend considering platform companies as part of an integrated platform ecosystem, acknowledging its interrelational, dynamic structure. And third, we shift attention from markets as level playing fields towards societal platform infrastructures where hierarchies and dependencies are built into their architecture. Reframing platform power may be a necessary condition for updating and integrating current regulatory regimes and policy proposals.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-18 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Thema: Platform regulation ; Platform infrastructures ; Platform power ; Antitrust regulation ; Tech companies

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): van Dijck, José ; Nieborg, David ; Poell, Thomas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.14763/2019.2.1414
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/214081
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ