Does Googling Justice Work? | Vol. 29, No. 1
Online search engines are key providers of legal information. Their responses to people’s search queries can influence whether and how people make use of the legal system to deal with…
Future-Proof Privacy Law | Vol. 29, No. 1
Why was the long-awaited federal privacy bill of 2022 so controversial among privacy advocates? The answer lies in one paragraph of the 143-page bill draft: the bill’s preemption provision. And…
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – Why any Remake of Antitrust Law for the Digital Economy Should Advance the Principles of Consumer Protection and Free Competition | Vol. 28, No. 3
American antitrust law is at a crossroads, characterized by calls from the Biden Administration and members of Congress to “break up” big technology companies. Traditional measures for conducting merger reviews…
Platformization and Media Capture: A Framework for Regulatory Analysis of Media-Related Platform Regulations | Vol. 28, No. 2
This article analyses the challenges of regulating the digital technology sector to support journalism in the era of platformization. It examines the interdependence between three categories of policy interventions proposed…
Open and Shut? The Promise – and Problems – of Government Open Data Portals in Meeting Community Information Needs | Vol. 28, No. 2
The open data revolution—a movement to liberate government-held information by publishing it online—holds enormous promise as a “force multiplier” for cash-strapped news organizations. Rather than consuming the resources of journalists…
Unbundling Hosting and Content Curation on Social Media Platforms: Between Opportunities and Challenges | Vol. 28, No. 2
Social media markets present a number of market failures. Some lead to users’ underexposure to diversity of content. There may be a variety of ways to address this challenge. One…