Despite several measures to curb their visibility, this study shows how Facebook mediates predominantly Russian state-aligned news during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine
Research articles on INFORMATION & DATA
To develop a response to what the new digital knowledge order means for science and scholarship, we need research and policy that focuses on the multiple ways platform power shapes academic knowledge production and communication.
The EU’s 2022 Digital Services Act mandates data access for researchers to study platform risks, but delays and diverging opinions of authorities hold back the DSA’s practical implementation.
Gaming the system is often portrayed as a threat to platforms and services, but this alleged threat can also be turned into a commercial service which raises ethical questions on exploitative digital environments, equality, and the erosion of democratic values.
Drawing from 18 interviews with protest leaders in Belarus, this study discusses protest-related labour shared between humans and technology.
In this study, we developed a consumer survey to investigate the extent to which legislation can (and should) keep up with existing and changing social and ethical norms regarding the use of data for personalising online prices.
This study critically discusses platforms’ non-compliance with data access based on a collaborative policy effort from scholars engaging in data donation studies.
A mixed method study of the EU geo-block's effectiveness in limiting sharing of Russian propaganda media and content in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The article outlines and discusses the methodological conditions for studying software development kits as an empirical entry point to research on mobile infrastructures for datafication.
We develop an approach to observe the algorithmically-tuned nature of digital advertising by creating visualisations of ad sequences from a citizen scientist data-donation project.