This glossary entry presents a topology of interoperability layers and presents some of the key economic and socio-technical concerns faced by interoperable systems.
Research articles on Infrastructure & Standards
Decentralised content moderation describes and potentially advocates for moderation infrastructures in which both the authority and the responsibility to moderate are distributed over a plurality of actors or institutions.
A glossary entry that defines consensus as a cultural technique and advocates for its potential as a democratic tool for common understanding, rather than distributed decision-making.
Focusing on recommender systems used by dominant social media platforms as an example of high-reach AI, this study explores the directionality of transparency provisions introduced by the Digital Services Act and highlights the pivotal role of oversight authorities in addressing risks posed by high-reach AI technologies.
This concept paper contextualises, defines, and systematises the concepts of trust and distrust (and their interrelations).
Advertisers’ concerns about “brand safety” and “brand suitability” are an underappreciated influence on social media platforms’ content governance, with concerning implications for social equality and the freedom of public debate online.
A platform policy implementation audit of how major digital platforms implemented their content moderation policies towards RT and Sputnik accounts at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It shows a wide, yet inconsistent range of measures taken by tech giants.
Internet freedom rankings are a comparative tool that serves as an evaluative shorthand in decision-making contexts internationally. Understanding their aims and how they define internet freedom, as well as the power relationships within the ranking ecosystem, can reveal a lot about their politics – and their limits.
Considering the rise of numerous smart city projects that impact fundamental rights in modern cities, this paper calls for the need to assess their cumulative effects on fundamental rights of city dwellers.
The idea of decentralising social media is driven by historical concerns over centralised power structures and the more contemporary issue of content moderation policies.
