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Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2023: Still Pursuing Decent Work in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.

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Gender and Platform Work: Beyond Technosolutionism

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.

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Der Kampf um das Internet: Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon und Co. die Tech-Giganten herausfordern

Stefan Mey

München: Beck (2023), 236 pp.

"Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets. Doch inzwischen konzentriert sich die Macht bei einigen wenigen Tech-Giganten. Dabei bietet das Netz selbst eine Lösung, um sein ursprüngliches Freiheitsversprechen zu bewahren: die nichtkommerzielle digitale Gegenwelt ... more

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Big Tech muss weg! Die Digitalkonzerne zerstören Demokratie und Wirtschaft. Wir werden sie stoppen

Martin Andree

Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 287 pp.

"Digitale Monopole bringen immer größere Teile unserer Lebenswelt unter ihre Kontrolle. Die Plattformen dominieren zunehmend die politische Meinungsbildung und schaffen zugleich unsere freie Marktwirtschaft ab. Man fragt sich: Ist das überhaupt noch legal? Warum sollten wir uns das noch länger g ... more

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Data Sharing to Foster Information as a Public Good: The Case of Media Viability and Safety of Journalists in the Digital Ecosystem

Guy Berger

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 17 pp.

"Trends towards greater transparency of platforms, in the form of extending cooperation around data, offer benefit to the interests of all stakeholders. This policy brief considers the normative, institutional and technical mechanisms that support access to datasets that are not accessible generally ... more

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‘Push-and-pull’ for visibility: How do fans as users negotiate over algorithms with Chinese digital platforms?

Yiyan Zhang, Shengchun Huang, Tong Li

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 321-339

"In the algorithmic era, both users and the platform battle for visibility. Chinese fans are savvy users who explore the hidden algorithms behind platform functions. With the collectively developed algorithmic imaginary, digital fandom communities negotiate with the platform over algorithms to optim ... more

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Pluralism of News and Information in Curation and Indexing Algorithms: Policy Framework

Forum on Information & Democracy (2023), 92 pp.

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Die Stärkung von Kinderrechten durch den Digital Services Act (DSA): Wege zu Best-Practice-Ansätzen

Ingrid Stapf, Stefan Dreyer, Laura Schelenz et al.

Sicherheit für Kinder in der digitalen Welt (SIKID) (2023), 18 pp.

"Das vorliegende Papier soll die Umsetzung des neuen Digital Services Act (DSA) konstruktiv aus einer kinderrechtlichen Perspektive begleiten. Dabei wird gezeigt, welche Potenziale sich aus dem DSA ergeben, um Kinderrechte im Digitalen zu stärken. Im Fokus stehen Anbietermaßnahmen sowie auch Präv ... more

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Fairwork Jordan Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in the Platform Economy

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

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Case law on content moderation and freedom of expression

Erik Tuchtfeld

New York: Columbia University, Global Freedom of Expression (2023), 23 pp.

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Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook

Deborah Brown, Rasha Younes

Human Rights Watch (2023), 68 pp.

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Regulation of Digital Platforms for a Socially-Just Gig Economy in Kenya

Tom Kwanya, Kutoma J. Wakunuma

Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2023), 99 pp.

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Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era

Andrea Baker, Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 207 pp.

"Bringing together 15 journalism scholars from around the world, this book explores and offers solutions to the common issues and inadequacies of reporting on sexual violence in the media. Presenting a range of conceptual, methodological, and empirical chapters, the book tackles issues related to, o ... more

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Fairwork Georgia Ratings 2023: Old Challenges and New Forms of Work in the Neoliberal Paradise

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.

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Community Stewards and Social Cohesion in Digital Spaces

Search for Common Ground (2023), 27 pp.

"[...] There are 70 million individuals who are administrators of Facebook groups. Many more coordinate groups across other platforms such as WhatsApp, Signal, and others, which are often run on mobile devices - with a global user base of 5.34 billion unique mobile users. Group administrators and mo ... derators act as “community stewards.” They are individuals in charge of reviewing user-generated content to ensure users adhere to rules, regulations, and community standards of social media platforms. They hold tremendous influence over the experience of their users, but they often step into these roles without fully understanding the scope of responsibilities they are taking on. Many community stewards describe their role as a “labor of love,” representing a substantial opportunity to catalyze large-scale, positive social change across societies. Yet, they face many challenges. Stewards cite myriad challenges, risks, rewards, and opportunities they face in managing their online groups and pages. This report focuses on the role of community stewards in promoting healthier relationships in their online and digital groups in conflict-affected and fragile countries. There is growing evidence of the societal impacts stewards are driving through their platforms, such as mobilizing aid during crises, raising awareness on important issues, and fostering solutions to community challenges. Given their unique reach, influence, and trust, community stewards hold great potential to not only mobilize positive social change, but also to foster connection and belonging in a way that positively transforms relationships and disrupts the toxic polarization that divides societies and fuels violence. The potential of community stewards is clear; it is less clear how civil society, the private sector, governments, and others can best support and scale up this potential. Understanding the needs and incentives of community stewards to proactively use their roles for building healthier online (and offline) communities can help build on what works. Understanding the barriers and challenges they face in doing so, will serve as critical entry points for mobilizing the right support to stewards. This report looks to uncover the barriers and opportunities that stewards face in their efforts to build healthier and safer online communities in conflict-affected and fragile places." (Introduction) 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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Google News Initiative’s Influence on Technological Media Innovation in Africa and the Middle East

Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, Allen Munoriyarwa, Adeola Abdulateef Elega, Charis Papaevangelou

Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2023), 14 pp.

"The Google News Initiative (GNI) aims to collaborate closely with the news industry and financially support the creation of quality journalism in the digital age. It also aims to bring technological advancements and innovation into newsrooms for operations. Drawing on journalism innovation and resp ... 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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The last Twitter census: Examining baseline metrics for Twitter users during a period of dramatic change

J. M. Berger

VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (2023), 77 pp.

"This report compares two large random samples of Twitter accounts that tweet in English: one taken just before Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022, and one taken three months later, in January 2023. It also examines several related datasets collected during the period following the acquisiti ... more

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Social Media Platforms and Challenges for Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights

Beatriz Botero Arcila, Rachel Griffin

Brussels: European Parliament, Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs (2023), 151 pp.

"This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, examines risks that contemporary social media - focusing in particular on the most widely-used platforms - present for democracy, the rul ... more