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OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity
Key Guides
Paris: OECD (2022), 38 pp.
"The OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security helps policy makers understand the economic and social dimension of cybersecurity, raises their awareness about the OECD approach to digital security policy, and encourages them to make use of OECD digital security recommendations to develop better poli
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Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 319 pp.
"Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has in recent years moved to the forefront of policy debate. In the wake of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the global 'techlash' against digital monopolies, platform studies are undergoing a
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Kommunikationsformen und Deliberationsdynamik: Eine relationale Inhalts- und Sequenzanalyse politischer Online-Diskussionen auf Beteiligungsplattformen
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2022), 293 pp.
"Die Arbeit widmet sich der Dynamik öffentlicher Online-Deliberation. Basierend auf einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem klassischen Deliberationskonzept werden neben der Argumentation ausserdem Narration, Emotionsäusserungen und Humor als deliberative Kommunikationsformen diskutiert. Neben
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Welche Öffentlichkeit brauchen wir? Zur Zukunft des Journalismus und demokratischer Medien
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2022), 236 pp.
"Die elf Beiträge der Autor:innen aus Medienwissenschaft und -praxis untersuchen Finanzierung, Produktion und Distribution medialer Öffentlichkeiten sowie Themen, Formate und Rezeption auf ihre Defizite und ihr progressives Potential. Die Analysen und Essays argumentieren unter anderem für die Ve
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Oferta y demanda de OTTs de contenidos audiovisuales en México
México, DF: Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) (2022), 29 slides
"Este es un reporte sobre el comportamiento de los hogares con posibilidad real de consumir contenidos en línea." (commbox)
Fairwork India Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Bangalore; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2022), 43 pp.
"There are two highlights to this year’s findings, firstly, the same three platforms that scored the first point for Fair Pay last year scored a point this year too. No other platform publicly committed, or provided sufficient evidence, to ensure that workers earn at least the hourly local minimum
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Comparing Guidance for Tech Companies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute; JustPeace Labs (2022), 44 pp.
"This research report explores the strengths and weaknesses of four different frameworks tech companies, governments, and civil society can use to assess harms and benefits of new technologies. The four frameworks include human rights, conflict sensitivity, ethics, and human security. The research m
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In Search of Platform Cooperatives in South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 52 pp.
"This study argues for the diversification of South Africa's digital economy, as it builds a case for the support of platform co-operatives, which are worker-owned and managed social enterprises that contribute to the diversification, decentralisation and democratisation of the digital economy by fo
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Platform Oversight: A Neglected Link in Internet’s Regulatory Futures
Buenos Aires: Universidad de Palermo, Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Informatión (CELE) (2022), 34 pp.
"The first section of this article frames the discussion of oversight in the legal theory of governance; then it analyzes different initiatives of regulation, co-regulation, and self-regulation centering on a few aspects of the mechanisms that impact their independence, impartiality, competence, and
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Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities
London: University of Westminster Press (2022), 258 pp
Journalismus in sozialen Netzwerken: ARD und ZDF im Bann der Algorithmen?
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2022), 112 pp.
"[...] Durch ausführliche Interviews mit Redaktionsmitgliedern und (Digital-)Verantwortlichen bei ARD und ZDF kann er [ = der Autor dieser Studie] ein detailliertes Bild ihrer gegenwärtigen Social-Media-Praxis zeichnen. Das Dilemma wird deutlich: Eine Orientierung der redaktionellen Tätigkeiten a
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Archiving (lost) nature: Hybrid experiences and memorization through participatory digital archives
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 273-292
"Waarneming.nl is the largest nature observation platform in the Netherlands, with over 70,000 users contributing data on biodiversity through their website and mobile applications. Using Waarneming.nl as an example, the theoretical exploration in this article offers a new lens to look at platforms
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Affordances of Digital Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analytical Review
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), issue 88: e12213 (2022), 21 pp.
"This paper presents an analytical review of the technological affordances of digital platforms in SSA. We adopted a systematic literature review methodology that entailed gathering evidence from relevant literature and digital platforms in three countries in SSA (South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya).
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"Ofcom has identified three features not currently captured under the existing regulatory framework that may present a risk to media plurality: online intermediaries and their algorithms control the prominence they give to different news sources and stories; the basis on which online intermediaries
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De-Westernizing Platform Studies: History and Logics of Chinese and U.S. Platforms
International Journal of Communication, volume 15 (2021), pp. 103-122
"The emergence of digital platforms has attracted considerable scholarly attention among media theorists. Yet, much of this scholarship has taken Western platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Netflix, Uber, and so on, as exemplars. In this article, we seek to contribute to the proj
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Media Influence Matrix: Jordan. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2021), 28 pp.
"As for internet use, the percentage of the population with access to internet rose to 89% in 2019 from 48% in 2015. Access to a mobile phone and internet in Jordan has become a matter of choice rather than affordability or accessibility. The Syrian refugee crisis explains the overshooting in mobile
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Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), vii, 315 pp.
"This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture - how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel
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Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), ix, 197 pp.
"In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cu
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Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
Deep Insights
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xxiv, 409 pp.
"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a
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Die Macht der Plattformen: Politik in Zeiten der Internetgiganten
Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag (2021), 448 pp.
"Plattformen sind mehr als Unternehmen, sie sind die Herrschaftszentren unserer Zeit. Facebook, Google und Amazon ersetzen Marktplätze und öffentliche Räume, doch sie entscheiden darüber, wer sich dort aufhalten darf und welche Regeln gelten. Von Staaten sind sie kaum zu kontrollieren, sie agier
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