Elettra Bietti

@elibietti
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Assistant Professor @ Northeastern University School of Law and Khoury College of Computer Sciences | Affiliations to BKC @ Harvard and Yale ISP | Tech intermediaries & just economies | https://www.elettrabietti.com
Elettra BiettiApr 22, 2024
Show threadBen WaberApr 21, 2024
First was day two of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State's annual antitrust conference. I particularly liked the opening panel on the DMA with @elibietti, @ProfFionasm, Nicolas Petit, and Maria Luisa Stasi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjwmequCfQ (2/6)
2024 Antitrust and Competition Conference - Day Two

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Elettra BiettiMar 15, 2024
Alexandre NderagakuraMar 6, 2024

Interesting paper from @elibietti "The Data-Attention Imperative" in digital advertising :
- Attention tactic relies on personalization, and individual content generation to produce a continuous spiral of data and revenue extraction
- A bad use can lead to disinformation and addictive behavior
- Need regulation about personal data and individual harms and rights

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4729500

Elettra BiettiDec 21, 2023
Amazed by the amount of work Meta put into making it virtually impossible to delete or deactivate a Facebook account.
Show threadElettra BiettiNov 2, 2023
A better approach to digital platform governance must take markets and infrastructures as central to any process of digital democratization. It entails experimenting with different branches of law, such as privacy, market regulation and antitrust, at once. It entails more than democratizing internal platform governance processes. It requires legal efforts to structure the digital economy in ways that make it more responsive to public demands across platform and corporate boundaries.
Show threadElettra BiettiNov 2, 2023
I spend some time unpacking Paul Gowder's argument in his new book "The Networked Leviathan" and find that his call for democratizing tech platforms fails to take into account the power tech actors hold over the infrastructures of speech, communication, knowledge formation. Imagining that it's possible for people to organize collectively *against* platforms in a context riddled with asymmetries and inequalities that is significantly, if not entirely, shaped and mediated by them is illusory.
Show threadElettra BiettiNov 2, 2023
In the piece I identify 3 frequent fallacies in scholarship on digital platforms: (a) the emphasis on solutionism and corresponding failure to spend time on the problems platforms raise, (b) an obsession with categorical tradeoffs and silos between legal domains, and (c) an impoverished account of the political economy of technology, of the co-evolution of politics and production, and of the core role of material infrastructure in digital settings.
Elettra BiettiNov 2, 2023

I wrote a piece for the @LPEblog https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-not-to-regulate-digital-platforms/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lpe-blog-update

It argues that asking whether one should "break-up" or "regulate/democratize" digital platform companies is the wrong question. We must break-up, we must regulate, we must experiment with many legal approaches to digital markets at once.

How Not to Regulate Digital Platforms

In Paul Gowder’s recent blog post, as well as in his new book, he argues that we should democratize, rather than dismantle or restructure, Big Tech platforms. However, this familiar framing obscures…

LPE Project
Elettra BiettiNov 2, 2023
Matteo NebbiaiNov 2, 2023
Great call by @elibietti to "regulatory experimentalism", against any simplistic take that sees democratisation/breaking up/etc. as a panacea against #BigTech
https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-not-to-regulate-digital-platforms
@LPEblog @lpe_project
How Not to Regulate Digital Platforms

In Paul Gowder’s recent blog post, as well as in his new book, he argues that we should democratize, rather than dismantle or restructure, Big Tech platforms. However, this familiar framing obscures…

LPE Project
Elettra BiettiSep 27, 2023
Jake ChanensonSep 26, 2023

I stumbled across Elettra Bietti's syllabus for The Regulation of Technology in the Digital Platform Economy and it looks so cool -- I wish I could take that class!

(https://www.elettrabietti.com/syllabi/the-regulation-of-technology-in-the-digital-platform-economy)

Elettra Bietti - The Regulation of Technology in the Digital Platform Economy

The Regulation of Technology in the Digital Platform Economy Professor Elettra Bietti Khoury College of Computer Sciences Fall 2023 Course description and objectives Technology is as old as civilization. Yet in the last fifty years, the advent of the internet, the digital platform economy, the

Elettra BiettiSep 13, 2023

As people discuss the US v Google trial, a reminder that I situate the case in the context of broader regulatory trends in Europe and the US in this article (currently working on edits, new version will be up as soon as next week I am hoping)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4275143