The Platformized Internet: Issues for Media Law and Policy

Abstract

Conversations about the internet in the 2010s tended to go along one of two distinct tracks. One track pointed to the new affordances of digital and social media. The other focused upon the growing concentration of ownership and control over the internet by a small number of giant digital corporations. This paper identifies the platformization of the Internet as a key development of this period, which raises new issues for media laws and policy.

Keywords: digital platforms; Internet law; media policy; digital media policy; platformized Internet

JEL Classification: H11; L51; O32