Retail trading platforms have gained popularity in recent years as brokers for ordinary people to trade speculative assets such as stocks and cryptocurrencies. These platforms earn revenue from their users' risky trading and through derivative products, where the platform benefits as the traders...

The hyper-targeted advertising that emerged on digital platforms over the past two decades is now more productively understood as tuned advertising, a dynamic and unfolding process where ads are continuously algorithmically "optimised" to users in real time. Following Rieder and Hofmann (2020),...

This paper examines how platform companies seek to lobby and otherwise influence policymakers during heated regulatory episodes. While there has been some valuable recent work on different policy influence strategies deployed by platform firms, in particular the emerging use of "user-facing"...

Responding to frustrations with the enforcement of copyright on YouTube, some creators publish videos that discuss their experiences, challenge claims of infringement, and critique broader structures of content moderation. Platform callouts, or public complaints about the conduct of or on...

What do we miss about the daily operations of platform power, and about power dynamics in the gig economy more broadly, when focusing on algorithmic management as the primary source of subordination and precarity in the workplace? Drawing on a five-year research project investigating...

One of the manifestations of platform power is the ability of platforms to successfully ignore existing rules and disrupt established patterns of regulation, thereby challenging the pillars of the regulatory state. But while the disruptive nature of the platform economy has often been invoked,...

A key pillar in the EU's approach to regulating disinformation is the Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation. This self-regulatory Code proposes a broad range of measures for different stakeholders. It has been signed by platform companies that thereby agreed to report on compliance...

This paper examines the impact of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on consumer behavior, focusing on changes in Google's search result presentation in the European Union (EU). Specifically, it investigates the effects of Google's removal of clickable maps in search results, a modification...

Public discourse has moved online, enabled by platforms, which in the context of information and media content have become an essential source, access point and key distributor of information. Public Service Media (PSM) - the 'basic information service provider' with a special mandate from the...