Metaverse

Social work in metaverse: addressing tech policy gaps for racial and mental health equity

Siva Mathiyazhagan, Columbia University
Minahil Salam, Columbia University
Henry A. Willis, Columbia University
Desmond U. Patton, Columbia University
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Feb 2022

A Metaverse from a non-regulated tech environment might cause digital harm to vulnerable communities. The authors argue that addressing policy gaps with social work principles will lead to algorithmic equity in the virtual world.

Political behavourial targeting

Transparency and (no) more in the Political Advertising Regulation

Max van Drunen, University of Amsterdam
Eva Groen-Reijman, University of Amsterdam
Tom Dobber, University of Amsterdam
Arman Noroozian, University of Amsterdam
Paddy Leerssen, University of Amsterdam
Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
Claes H. de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
Fabio Votta, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 25 Jan 2022

The Regulation on Political Advertising (RPA) represents the EU’s most significant effort to address concerns about political advertising’s democratic impact, but does it live up to the Commission’s hype ?

Artificial intelligence

Identifying harm in manipulative artificial intelligence practices

Suzanne Vergnolle, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Nov 2021

This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA

Digital Services Act (DSA)

P2B and the missing relational dimensions of the Digital Services Act

Ohad Somech, Bar-Ilan University
Maayan Perel, Netanya Academic College
Niva Elkin-Koren, Tel Aviv University
PUBLISHED ON: 23 Nov 2021

This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA

Risk-based regulation

The Digital Services Act: risk-based regulation of online platforms

Zohar Efroni, Weizenbaum Institute
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Nov 2021

This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA

Digital Services Act

Framing the Digital Services Act within transatlantic digital constitutionalism

Giovanni De Gregorio, University of Oxford
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Nov 2021

This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA

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