Humour as an online safety issue: Exploring solutions to help platforms better address this form of expression

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology
Louisa Bartolo, Queensland University of Technology
Luke Troynar, Queensland University of Technology
PUBLISHED ON: 25 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1677

The policies and content moderation practices of social media companies are not well equipped to recognise how and when humour harms. All too-often, therefore, platforms take down important harmless humour while they fail to effectively moderate humour that sows division and hate.

Google and Apple together control 99% of the European smartphone operating system market. What are the distinctive European policy and academic contributions to the ongoing global debate on how this new source of market power should be controlled?

Uploaders' perceptions of the German implementation of the EU copyright reform and their preferences for copyright regulation

Steliyana Doseva, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Hannah Schmid-Petri, University of Passau
Jan Schillmöller, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Dirk Heckmann, Technical University of Munich
PUBLISHED ON: 14 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.4.1674

While the upload filters introduced by the EU copyright reform are being transposed into national law, this study examines how uploaders perceive copyright regulation and what further demands they have.

Ad hoc network

Kelsie Nabben, RMIT University
Ellie Rennie, RMIT University
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.2.1666

There is no one set definition for the phrase “ad hoc networks”. The term refers to the ability for members of a network to establish a network connection between devices. Yet, ad hoc networks pertain to both the technical domain of network infrastructures, the social, political and economic modes of self-organisation they enable, and the regulatory and policy settings that enable them.