Platform Governance Essay Series

The internet has created enormous social, political, and economic benefits over the past 30 years. However, these benefits have also come at considerable costs.

There is growing attention to these issues and increasing regulatory actions around the world. Governments have started to test strategies to govern the digital public sphere, converging on what scholars call a platform governance agenda.

While encouraging, the emerging discourse in academia and public policy on platform governance too often remains siloed by topic. Research and policy also remain largely disconnected. In this series, we offer a set of 16 short pieces to address these two issues.

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada Digital Citizen Initiative (DCI) Grant.