Digital Platforms are Not Media Companies/Broadcasters: Telecoms Regulation and Antitrust as Guides to Platform Regulation

Public lecture by Dwayne Winseck (Carleton University).

This presentation will focus on the recent turn away from the 'free and open internet' to the rise and regulation of planetary-scale digital platforms. The main issue it will tackle is how to think of digital platforms and their regulation, arguing that while there is a strong tendency in communication and media studies to reach for analogies to broadcasting regulation and media policy, the twinned history of telecommunications regulation and antitrust law offers a better guide to how we should think about – and regulate – the centralized and platformed internet of our times.

Funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark grant 0132-00080B Datafied Living.