Research articles on DIVERSITY

Cypherpunk

André Ramiro, Law and Technology Research Institute of Recife (IP.rec)
Ruy de Queiroz, Federal University of Pernambuco
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.2.1664

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

Isabelle A. Zaugg, Columbia University
Anushah Hossain, University of California Berkeley
Brendan Molloy, Independent researcher
PUBLISHED ON: 11 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.2.1654

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.

“Doing gender” by sharing: examining the gender gap in the European sharing economy

Thomas Eichhorn, German Youth Institute
Christian Hoffmann, Leipzig University
Katharina Heger, Freie Universität Berlin
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1627

This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.

This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias. Introduction Wanghong is short for the Chinese term “wangluo hongren”: people who have gone viral online. Covering a wide spectrum of participants including video uploader, vlogger, popular accounts on diverse social media, wanghong refers to a particular stream of vocational Chinese internet celebrities that have acquired their celebrity online and have acute incentives through various models to liquidate such online influence by transforming followers into consumers (Han, 2020a). As of late, the wanghong economy in China …