The paper contributes to the further development of platform studies by looking at the early stages of development. It draws on insights from an exemplary research and innovation project that aimed to develop a "diversity-aware online social platform".
Research articles on DIVERSITY
Follow along as Members of the European Parliament navigate bias and discrimination in AI and explore their perspectives on regulatory measures, shedding light on the complexities of their understanding and paving the path towards informed policy development.
This study examines the role of Google’s video search in three media diversity areas: format-type diversity, source diversity, and structural-social diversity.
Digital access surveys do not cover barriers experienced by limited users making them ineffective to capture and respond to their needs.
Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
Digitally-disadvantaged languages face multiple inequities in the digital sphere, with their speaker communities frequently experiencing the duality of digital neglect and surveillance. These languages suffer from gaps in digital support, and when support does exist, it often makes speaker communities vulnerable to surveillance and gaps in content moderation.
Gender inequalities in digital labour platforms echo those in the traditional labour market.
This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.
This introduction to the special issue provides the state of the art of research on the interplay between the platform economy and gender.
We provide a theoretical framework to systematise content gaps in Wikipedia and then use it to examine how this platform shapes women's visibility.