This article addresses the problem of platform power by probing current regulatory frameworks’ basic assumptions about how tech firms operate in digital ecosystems. Platform power is generally assessed in terms of economic markets in which individual corporate actors harness technological innovations to compete fairly, thereby maximising consumer welfare. We propose three paradigmatic shifts in the conceptualisation of platform power. First, we suggest to expand the notion of consumer welfare to citizen wellbeing, hence addressing a broader scope of platform services’ beneficiaries. Second, we recommend considering platform companies as part of an integrated platform ecosystem, acknowledging its interrelational, dynamic structure. And third, we shift attention from markets as level playing fields towards societal platform infrastructures where hierarchies and dependencies are built into their architecture. Reframing platform power may be a necessary condition for updating and integrating current regulatory regimes and policy proposals. Citation & publishing information

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改造平台电源

本文通过探究当前监管框架关于技术公司在数字生态系统中如何运作的基本假设，来解决平台功能的问题。通常根据经济市场来评估平台的力量，在这些市场中，单个公司参与者利用技术创新来公平竞争，从而最大程度地提高消费者福利。我们提出了平台动力概念上的三个范式转变。首先，我们建议将消费者福利的概念扩展到公民福祉，从而解决更大范围的平台服务受益人的问题。其次，我们建议考虑平台公司作为集成平台生态系统的一部分，并承认其相互关联的动态结构。第三，我们将注意力从作为公平竞争环境的市场转移到在其架构中构建了层次结构和依赖项的社会平台基础结构。重新定义平台功能可能是更新和整合当前监管制度和政策建议的必要条件。引文和出版信息