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Dieter, Michael, Helmond, Anne, Tkacz, Nathaniel, van der Vlist, Fernando and Weltevrede, Esther (2021) Pandemic platform governance : mapping the global ecosystem of COVID-19 response apps. Internet Policy Review : journal on internet regulation, 10 (3). doi:10.14763/2021.3.1568 ISSN 2197-6775.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.14763/2021.3.1568
Abstract
This article provides an exploratory systematic mapping of the global ecosystem of COVID-19 pandemic response apps. After considering policy updates by Google Play’s and Apple’s App Store, we analyse all the available response apps in July 2020; their different response types; the apps’ developers and geographical distribution; the ecosystem’s ‘generativity’ and developers’ responsiveness during the unfolding pandemic; the apps’ discursive positioning; and material conditions of their development. Google and Apple are gatekeepers of these app ecosystems and exercise control on different layers, shaping the pandemic app response as well as the relationships between governments, citizens, and other actors. We suggest that this global ecosystem of pandemic responses reflects an exceptional mode of what we call ‘pandemic platform governance’, where platforms have negotiated their commercial interests and the public interest in exceptional circumstances.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | |||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Technological innovations, Application software -- Research, Medical Informatics | |||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Internet Policy Review : journal on internet regulation | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society | |||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2197-6775 | |||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 6 August 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Number: | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 28 | |||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.14763/2021.3.1568 | |||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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