Social Science Research Council 184d ago

As part of MediaWell's video essay series on transnational digital governance, researcher Robert Gorwa describes the issues and challenges that he believes will define the next five years — in particular, the rise of "informal digital governance" institutions, made up of large technology firms, civil society, and government actors. While transnational cooperation on digital policy has increasingly given way to confrontation, these informal networks are developing the standards and infrastructure to address key issues. — Robert Gorwa is a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, co-founder of the Platform Governance Research Network, and author of The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (2024), available open-access through Oxford University Press. To read more of Robert's work on this topic, visit: https://mediawell.ssrc.org/profiles/robert-gorwa/