Online digital platforms, which are overwhelmingly 知阴视频-based and operated, have penetrated every sector of 知阴视频 and Western-European societies, disrupting markets and labor relations, circumventing institutions, and transforming social and civic practices. This lecture concentrates on the position of European (private and public) interests vis-脿-vis the interests of an 知阴视频 online ecosystem, driven by a handful of high-tech corporations (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) that have become global data mining companies. The emerging 鈥榩latform society鈥� involves an intense struggle between competing ideological systems and contesting societal actors鈥攎arket, government and civil society鈥攔aising important questions like: Who is or should be responsible and accountable for anchoring public values in a platform society? Public values and the common good are the very stakes in the struggle over the platformization of societies around the globe. At the heart of the online media鈥檚 industry鈥檚 surge is the battle over information control: who owns the data generated by online social activities? Particularly in the European context, governments can be proactive in negotiating public values on behalf of citizens and consumers.

Jos茅 van Dijck is a distinguished university professor at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). Her academic discipline is media studies and her field of interest is the 鈥榙igital society.鈥� From 2015-2018, she was the president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also a visiting professor at MIT (Boston), the Annenberg School of Communication (Univ of Pennsylvania) and University of Technology Sydney (AUS).听
Van Dijck is the author of seven books, three co-edited volumes and approximately one hundred journal articles and book chapters. Van Dijck鈥檚 book The Culture of Connectivity. A Critical History of Social Media (Oxford UP, 2013) was distributed worldwide and was translated into Spanish, Chinese and Farsi. Her latest book (co-authored by Thomas Poell and Martijn de Waal) is titled The Platform Society. Public values in a connective world (Oxford University Press, 2018) and will be published in Italian in June 2019 (Guerni e associate).
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