Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented, and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society.
It is increasingly clear that democratic societies require new legal and conceptual tools if they are to adequately understand, and if necessary check the economic might of these companies. Equally, that we need to better comprehend the ability of such firms to control personal data and to shape the flow of news, information, and public opinion.
In this volume, Martin Moore and Damian Tambini draw together the world's leading researchers to examine the digital dominance of technologies platforms and look at the evidence behind the rising tide of criticism of the tech giants. In fifteen chapters, the authors examine the economic, political, and social impacts of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, in order to understand the different facets of their power and how it is manifested. Digital Dominance is the first interdisciplinary volume on this topic, contributing to a conversation which is critical to maintaining the health of democracies across the world.
Introduction, Martin Moore and Damian Tambini
Section 1: Economy
1. The Evolution of Digital Dominance: how and why we got to GAFA
, Patrick Barwise and Leo Watkins
2. Platform dominance: the shortcomings of antitrust policy
, Diane Coyle
3. When data evolves into market power - data concentration and data abuse under competition law
, Inge Graef
4. An Infrastructure Service and Its Challenge to Current Antitrust Law
, Lina Khan
Section 2: Society
5. Platform reliance, information intermediaries and news diversity: A look at the evidence
, Nic Newman and Richard Fletcher
6. Challenging diversity - social media platforms and a new conception of media diversity
, Natali Helberger
7. The Power of Providence: the role of platforms in leveraging the legibility of users to accentuate inequality
, Orla Lynskey
8. Digital agenda setting: re-examining the role of platform monopolies
, Justin Schlosberg
9. Free Expression? Dominant information intermediaries as arbiters of internet speech
, Ben Wagner
10. The Dependent Press: how Silicon Valley threatens independent journalism
, Emily Bell
Section 3: Politics
11. Social media power and election legitimacy
, Damian Tambini
12. Manipulating Minds: the power of search engines to influence votes and opinions
, Robert Epstein
13. I vote for - how search informs our choice of candidate
, Nick Diakopoulos, Daniel Trielli, Jennifer Stark, and Sean Mussenden
14. Social Dynamics in the Age of Credulity: the misinformation risk and its fallout
, Fabiana Zollo and Walter Quattriociochi
15. Platform Power and Responsibility in the Attention Economy
, John Naughton
Conclusion
, Damian Tambini and Martin Moore
