This panel conversation was part of a recent event hosted by the Platform Economies Research Network (PERN), in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. 

The event titled 'Digital Platform Economies: Value from data?' was held at the New School in New York City on 24-26 April 2024. 

This panel explores value propositions articulated by platform governance models. These platforms mediate interactions between data, content, and value. The panel examines the different ways that value is posited and narrated as precursors to regulatory arbitration. The latter typically manifest as managerial interventions and market-framing instruments – as in, for example, “the data market.” This panel investigates those dynamics through specific examples of platform governance: automated ad-tech blacklisting, content moderation, drone delivery services, and financial transactions between platforms and news media organizations. The aim is to explore different value propositions at play across each of these contexts. This session addresses the following questions: How do particular value propositions justify specific governance and managerial interventions? How do market-framing narratives (e.g., the data market) become dominant? What are their expressions in different contexts? How do these approaches embed diverse strategies for distributing regulatory and civic functions between private and public actors?

Featured in this conversation is ADM+S researchers Dr Thao Phan, Dr Jake Goldenfein, Assoc Prof James Meese, Angela Xiao Wu from PERN, and moderated by Linda Huber from PERN.

Learn more about this event: https://www.admscentre.org.au/digital-platform-economies-program/