Regulating Chinese and North American Digital Media in Australia: Facebook and WeChat as Case Studies-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Regulating Chinese and North American Digital Media in Australia: Facebook and WeChat as Case Studies

Published:2022 Issue: Volume: Page:173-190
ISSN:2634-6192
Container-title:Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
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Author:

Su Chunmeizi

Abstract

AbstractAs the Australian government has legislated for a ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’ to compel Google and Facebook to pay for news content, platform regulation in Australia has prompted a heated discussion worldwide. Questionable business practices have incited issues such as anti-competition behaviour, online harms, disinformation, algorithmic advertising, trade of data, privacy breaches and so on. Consequently, these technology tycoons are reinscribing industries and societies alike, posing a threat to digital democracy. This chapter examines how Facebook and WeChat are (or should be) regulated in Australia, the current regulatory frameworks, and the overall effectiveness of self-regulation. Through the lenses of comparative research, this study is focused on infrastructuralisation, techno-nationalism (censorship), and civil society (media diversity), to identify distinct features and common themes in platform regulation and explore possible solutions to regulating global platforms in Australia.

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-95220-4_9

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