Smart technologies are capable of responding to feedback in ways that range from clever to mind-boggling. The point is how they affect human agency.
Digital commons, understood as shared information, culture and knowledge resources created and maintained online, are a crucial concept to think about the development of the digital sphere beyond surveillance capitalism and steer it toward a more socially inclusive and sustainable economy and a renewal of democracy.
Can we reduce hateful material online through changing platform affordances? Studying Reddit’s quarantine function, this paper argues the results of this approach are mixed.
What more can social media platforms do to combat misinformation? Recommendations from policymakers suggest reconceptualising social media policies as a necessary step.
Through empirical methods that walkthrough a typical user experience for acquiring virtual private network (VPN) services, this paper attempts to answer the question of how we come to trust, use and govern VPNs.
The editorial of the third special issue of Internet Policy Review in cooperation with the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is dedicated to the concept of trust. We explore the macro- and micro-levels of trust in the system and trust in the content, and also introduce the six papers selected for this special issue.
Content moderation has exploded as a public and a policy concern, but the debate remains too narrow. Nine experts suggest ways to expand it.
Interested in public policy and parliamentary research? Learn about the new digital committee, data retention law making and the emergence of internet policy in Germany.
With online platforms in the sights of policymakers and regulators, we examine their power in the integrated platform ecosystem for video advertising.
This paper is part of Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Monique Mann and Angela Daly. Introduction Since the Snowden revelations in 2013 (see e.g., Lyon, 2014; Lyon, 2015) an ongoing policy issue has been the legitimate scope of surveillance, and the extent to which individuals and groups can assert their fundamental rights, including privacy. There has been a renewed focus on policies regarding access to encrypted communications, which are part of a longer history of the ‘cryptowars’ of the 1990s (see e.g., Koops, 1999). We examine these provisions in the Anglophone ‘Five Eyes’ (FVEY) The FVEY partnership is a comprehensive …