No innocents: Platforms, politics, and media struggling with digital governance

Developing Digital Media Platforms for Early Design

Badam, Sriram Karthik M.S.E.C.E, Purdue University, August 2014. Developing Digital Media Platforms for Early Design. Major Professor: Niklas Elmqvist. In recent times, mobile devices are becoming an integral part of our daily life. Software applications on these handheld devices are successfully migrating the traditional paperbased activities such as reading news, books, and even navigating th...

Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices

The politics of 'platforms'

Online content providers such as YouTube are carefully positioning themselves to users, clients, advertisers and policymakers, making strategic claims for what they do and do not do, and how their place in the information landscape should be understood. One term in particular, ‘platform’, reveals the contours of this discursive work. The term has been deployed in both their populist appeals and...

Inaugural Editorial: Politics and Governance

We are proud to welcome our readers, contributors and reviewers to this inaugural issue of Politics and Governance, published by Librello Publishing House— a peer reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the study of politics in the national, regional and global realm, and the modes and methods of governance in all its manifestations. We are thrilled to be so ably supported by an editorial bo...

Law, Politics, and International Governance