Pradip Ninan Thomas is Associate Professor, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia. His research focusses on media and religion, the political economy of communications, the media in India, and communications for social change. Thomas has written extensively in these areas in all the leading journals in the field, including the Journal of Communications and Communication Theory. He has authored nine books and edited numerous others.

• 1: Platform Regulation: Three Reasons


• 2: Introduction to Platform Power


• 3: The EU, Platform Regulation, and the Right to be Forgotten


• 4: Platform Regulation in the USA


• 5: The Equalization Levy in India


• 6: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry


• 7: Platform Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities

This volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and challenges related to platform regulation and the conundrums and paradoxes involved. It highlights regulatory responses from four jurisdictions - the European Union, USA, India, and Australia.