The networked leviathan for democratic platforms

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, r...

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Other Authors: Gowder, Paul, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Jul 2023).
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:9781108985338
9781108985390
9781108975438
Access:Open Access.