TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gowder,Paul
TI  - The networked leviathan: for democratic platforms 
SN  - 9781108975438 (ebook)
AV  - K4345 .G69 2023
U1  - 342.08/53 23/eng/20230728
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social media
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Jul 2023); The nature and problems of platforms -- The enterprise of platform governance development -- The whole industry is bad : radically remake it by force -- The problem of platform self-control -- Actually existing platform self-constraint... up to a point : the meta oversight  board -- Platform democracy now! -- Conclusion : how liberal-democratic governments can act now; Open Access
N2  - Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, so far, they've failed to do so. The inability of platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon to govern their users has led to stolen elections, refused vaccines, counterfeit N95s in a pandemic, and even genocide. Such failures stem from these companies' inability to manage the complexity of their userbases, products, and their own incentives under the eyes of internal and external constituencies. The Networked Leviathan argues that countries should adapt the institutional tools developed in political science for platform governance to democratize major platforms. Democratic institutions allow knowledgeable actors to freely share and apply their understanding of the problems they face while leaders more readily recruit third parties to help manage their decision-making capacity. This book is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core. For more information, visit https://networked-leviathan.com
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975438
ER  -