Book Talk: The Politics of Platform Regulation with Robert Gorwa

Robert Gowra in Conversation with Daniel Weissmann, will discuss The Politics of Platform Regulation.

Join the Technology, Internet, and Policy Group (TIP) to discuss Robert Gowra’s book ‘The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation’ and their associated work. His book is driven through stakeholder interviews and FOIs of policy documents across four states, provides a conceptual and empirical analysis of the important and emerging tech policy terrain of platform regulation: How, why, and where exactly is it happening? Why now? And how do we best understand the vast array of strategies being deployed across jurisdictions to tackle this issue?

You can find the book here.

Robert Gorwa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center, and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He studies the politics of technology policy, with a special interest in platform governance and emerging socio-technical regulatory arrangements in the digital economy. He holds a DPhil from Oxford’s  Department of Politics and International Relations, and is the author of The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation, which was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.