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The digital covenant: Non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network

Robert W. Gehl, Diana Zulli

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2024), pp. 3275-3291

"The majority of scholarship on platform governance focuses on for-profit, corporate social media with highly centralized network structures. Instead, we show how non-centralized platform governance functions in the Mastodon social network. Through an analysis of survey data, Github and Discourse de ... more

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Fairwork Mexico Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Mexico; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.

"An urgent finding of this first Fairwork Mexico report was impact platform work has on the physical and mental health of workers. Indeed, in megacities like Mexico City, and in urban environments marked by traffic congestion, pollution and fast-paced city life, workers’ bodies are being reduced t ... more

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Kirsten Eddy, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 158 pp.

"Across markets, only around a fifth of respondents (22%) now say they prefer to start their news journeys with a website or app – that’s down 10 percentage points since 2018. Publishers in a few smaller Northern European markets have managed to buck this trend, but younger groups everywhere are ... showing a weaker connection with news brands’ own websites and apps than previous cohorts – preferring to access news via side-door routes such as social media, search, or mobile aggregators. • Facebook remains one of the most-used social networks overall, but its influence on journalism is declining as it shifts its focus away from news. It also faces new challenges from established networks such as YouTube and vibrant youth-focused networks such as TikTok. The Chinese-owned social network reaches 44% of 18–24s across markets and 20% for news. It is growing fastest in parts of Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. • When it comes to news, audiences say they pay more attention to celebrities, influencers, and social media personalities than journalists in networks like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. This contrasts sharply with Facebook and Twitter, where news media and journalists are still central to the conversation. • Much of the public is sceptical of the algorithms used to select what they see via search engines, social media, and other platforms. Less than a third (30%) say that having stories selected for me on the basis of previous consumption is a good way to get news, 6 percentage points lower than when we last asked the question in 2016. Despite this, on average, users still slightly prefer news selected this way to that chosen by editors or journalists (27%), suggesting that worries about algorithms are part of a wider concern about news and how it is selected. • Despite hopes that the internet could widen democratic debate, we find fewer people are now participating in online news than in the recent past. Aggregated across markets, only around a fifth (22%) are now active participators, with around half (47%) not participating in news at all. In the UK and United States, the proportion of active participators has fallen by more than 10 percentage points since 2016. Across countries we find that this group tends to be male, better educated, and more partisan in their political vie ws. • Trust in the news has fallen, across markets, by a further 2 percentage points in the last year, reversing in many countries the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, four in ten of our total sample (40%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the country with the highest levels of overall trust (69%), while Greece (19%) has the lowest after a year characterised by heated arguments about press freedom and the independence of the media." (Summary, page 10) more

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“Shadowbanning is not a thing”: Black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms

Kelley Cotter

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1226-1243

"Efforts to govern algorithms have centerd the ‘black box problem,’or the opacity of algorithms resulting from corporate secrecy and technical complexity. In this article, I conceptualize a related and equally fundamental challenge for governance efforts: black box gaslighting. Black box gasligh ... more

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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research

Stefania Vicari, Daniel Kirby

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755

"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat ... more

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Fairwork Bosnia and Herzegovina Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.

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Fairwork Uganda Ratings 2023: A Need for Pro-Worker Change

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 33 pp.

"In 2023, Fairwork conducted the first year of research in Uganda among twelve selected digital platforms. The selected platforms are in the sectors of ride hailing and food delivery. The research and rating of platforms was done as per the five Fairwork principles." (Executive Summary)

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Fairwork Uruguay Puntuaciones 2023: La Precariedad Laboral versus la Promesa de Flexibilidad y Autonomía en la Economía de Plataformas

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 43 pp.

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The digital covenant: Non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network

Fairwork Mexico Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023

“Shadowbanning is not a thing”: Black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms

Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research

Fairwork Bosnia and Herzegovina Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Uganda Ratings 2023: A Need for Pro-Worker Change

Fairwork Nigeria Ratings 2023: Advocating for Increased Safety and Security in the Platform Economy

Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2023: Advocating for Safety and Dignity in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Colombia Ratings 2023: The Mobilities of Gig Work in Colombia

Fairwork Lebanon Ratings 2023: Platform Work in Times of Crisis

Fairwork Morocco Ratings 2023: Assessing Working Conditions in the Moroccan Platform Economy

Fairwork Indonesia Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Serbia Ratings 2023. Delivering Discontent: Dynamic Pricing and Worker Unrest

Fairwork Jordan Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Uruguay Puntuaciones 2023: La Precariedad Laboral versus la Promesa de Flexibilidad y Autonomía en la Economía de Plataformas

Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2022/23: Platform Workers Amidst Egypt's Economic Crisis

Fairwork Kenya Ratings 2023: The Promise and Peril of Platform Work in the Kenyan Platform Economy

Fairwork Albania Ratings 2023: Assessing Work in the Albanian Platform Economy

Fairwork Pakistan Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy