Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?
Research articles on GOVERNANCE
This paper discusses how online political micro-targeting is regulated in Europe, from the perspective of data protection law, freedom of expression, and political advertising rules.
The current quest to understand the digital society is populated by a plethora of ideas, ranging from catchwords to concepts. This special section establishes a forum to reflect if these are actually worthwhile, provide analytic value and describe something new.
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Digital society
What is platformisation? This article contextualises, defines, and operationalises the concept. Drawing insights from different scholarly perspectives on platforms it develops a comprehensive approach to this process.
Algorithmic governance as a key concept in controversies around the emerging digital society takes up the idea that digital technologies produce social ordering in a specific way.
Ad archives are a novel tool in online advertising governance. They promise significant benefits, but only if their operators address key criticisms.
Do machines have morality? Should robots have rights? Which ethical guideline should we adopt to orient their advancement? In this paper we will discuss the main normative and ethical challenges imposed by the artificial intelligence context.
This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2018 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Montréal, Canada.
Public policy proposals regarding algorithms are often based on purely theoretically derived risk assessments. We propose a user-centred mixed-methods approach for more evidence-based policymaking.
This paper analyses the aftermath of the advertiser revolt on YouTube to draw out the broader implications of the controversy as it relates to the algorithmic gatekeeping of culture. It argues that the event shows as never before that decisions about categorisation and classification of cultural content invariably affect the financial trajectory of the said content. It ends by calling for broader stakeholder participation within key decision-making processes of digital platforms.