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Encrypted Messaging and Extreme Speech: Policy Directions
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU); Center for Digital Dignity (2025), 58 pp.
"The report highlights interventions in six main categories, namely: Platform governance; Mitigating digital influence operations; Supporting research; Strengthening fact-checking; Awareness raising and capacity building; Leveraging artificial intelligence responsibly. The recommendations highlight
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e
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Digital vines: Mapping China’s network of global platform ecosystems
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"The world’s information systems are arguably owned by American and Chinese companies. So far, studies on China’s globalising Internet adopt either monolith approach or fragmented approach, lacking a comprehensive image to capture the architecture of China’s global information systems. Critica
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Tributação das Big Techs e Jornalismo: Caminhos para o Brasil
Momentum Journalism & Tech Task Force (2025), 26 pp.
"A atuação e o modelo de negócio das grandes empresas de tecnologia remodelaram profundamente as dinâmicas econômicas de diversos setores, inclusive o do jornalismo. A concentração de receitas publicitárias em grandes plataformas aprofunda a crise estrutural da mídia, colocando em xeque a s
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Data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms: A conceptual proposal
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 22 pp.
"In this paper, we conceptualize platforms that aim at data integration and analysis as a distinct type of digital platform. Based on the existing literature on digital platforms in general, which so far did not engage with data integration and analysis platforms, we present a definition of data int
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The Influence Evolution: Harnessing AI Innovation While Preserving Human Connection in Social Media
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) (2025), 10 pp.
"Social media stands at a pivotal juncture where technology and humanity converge. From productivity tools to fully autonomous AI agents, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how content is created, distributed, and consumed. This evolution presents dual futures: one in which AI influencers and
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Big Tech Must Go! Digital Giants are Destroying our Democracies and Economies. We will stop them
Deep Insights
Frankfurt; Chicago: Campus Verlag; University of Chicago Press (2025), 285 pp.
"Digital monopolies shape ever larger parts of our lives. The platforms are increasingly controlling the public formation of political opinion and at the same time abolishing our free market economy. Digital expert Martin Andree shows in detail how far the hostile takeover of our society by the tech
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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
Deep Insights
München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.
"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc
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Greening digital companies 2025: Monitoring emissions and climate commitments
Geneva; Amsterdam: ITU; World Benchmarking Alliance (2025), 90 pp.
"The fourth edition of the Greening Digital Companies: Monitoring Emissions and Climate Commitments report continues to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy use and climate commitments of 200 digital companies. It provides a critical foundation for setting science-based targets (SBTs), measu
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TikTok: Prekäre Plattform
Die Politische Meinung, volume 70, issue 592 (2025), pp. 20-89
"Mit rund 1,5 Milliarden monatlichen Nutzern ist TikTok ein globaler Kommunikationsraum – und ein geopolitisches Machtinstrument. Die Plattform steht mit im Zentrum der Rivalität zwischen den USA und China. Washington drängt auf eine Abspaltung vom chinesischen Mutterkonzern ByteDance, während
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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on New Media, AI and Data Governance
Deep Insights
Paris: International Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), xxxvi, 265 pp.
"This report is an invitation to grapple with the complex interplay between infrastructure, media systems, civil society, and public sector institutions. Our findings suggest that effective policy solutions must: acknowledge the historical, political, economic, and social forces that shape informati
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"Dieser Report bietet einen Überblick über die im NOTORIOUS Projekt entwickelten und angewandten Methoden und Strategien zur Erhebung und Analyse von Mehrplattform-Social-Media-Daten mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Aufdeckung von Desinformationsnarrativen. Zur Datensammlung erwiesen sich explorative
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Online Content Regulation in the Asia-Pacific: Limiting Civil Society’s Capacity to Hold Governments Accountable
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2024), v, 37 pp.
"Governments have updated penal codes and national security laws, enacted fake news and cybersecurity laws as well as laws that govern internet service providers and technology companies. These laws have widely been used to block and remove online content that call out blind spots in government poli
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A Review of Policy Options and Scenarios on Philippine Platform Work
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2024), 38 pp.
"The Policy Brief covers pathways for reform of government regulation or public policy with respect to areas applicable to platform workers. These include: a) Laws and statutes enacted by the legislative branch or Congress; and b) Administrative issuances made by the executive branch [...] Further,
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An Urgent Call for Fair Working Conditions in Africa
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork; African Platform Workers Representatives (APWR) (2024), 10 pp.
"The APWR calls on regional institutions and national government agencies to consider the following recommendations: 1. Standardise commission rates [...]
2. Mandate platforms to provide risk mitigation strategies and safety nets [...]
3. The contracts and/or terms and conditions must be subject to
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Advancing Cloud and Data Infrastructure Markets: Strategic Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xx, 139 pp.
The digital covenant: Non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network
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
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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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Fairwork Chile Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Santiago; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 35 pp.
