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policyreview-info-6176		Towards platform observability | Internet Policy Review			.html	text/html	11421	830	45	Echoing the critical literature on transparency as a policy panacea (e.g., Etzioni, 2010; Ananny & Crawford, 2018), we propose the concept of observability as a more pragmatic way of thinking about the means and strategies necessary to hold platforms accountable. Similar to the flawed logic of 'notice and consent' in the area of privacy protection, which holds that informing individuals on the purposes of data collection allows them to exercise their rights, a superficial understanding of transparency in the area of platform regulation risks producing ineffective results (see Obar, 2020; Yeung, 2017). While the term is regularly used in the literature on transparency (e.g., Bernstein, 2012; Albu & Flyverbom, 2015; August & Osrecki, 2019), we seek to calibrate it to our specific goals: the challenges raised by platforms as regulatory structures need to be addressed more broadly, beginning with the question of how we can assess what is happening within large-scale, transnational environments that heavily rely on technology as a mode of governance.	./cache/policyreview-info-6176.html	./txt/policyreview-info-6176.txt