Media pluralism online calls for new policy and regulatory safeguards.
Research articles on GOVERNANCE
This international comparative research explores the socio-political impact of voting in online surveys on voters, civil society organisations, government authorities and open government overall in Moldova and Ukraine.
Introduction Globally, there are now over 800 AI policy initiatives, from the governments of at least 60 countries, with most being introduced after 2016. The United Kingdom (UK) is at the forefront of AI governance efforts, at least quantitatively, being second only to the United States (US) in terms of the number of national-level AI policies released (OECD.AI, 2021) and ranking top for the number of mentions of AI in legislative documents between 2016 and 2021 (Zhang et al., 2022). According to the OECD, the US has released 55 documents, the UK 53, the EU 59, and China 22. These figures do not evidence the UK producing better outcomes than other countries that have published fewer …
This paper critically engages with key responses to algorithmic governance, including access and inclusion, transparency, and refusal. How can these responses effectively address the harms produced by algorithmic governance?
This empirical study of governance and ethics regarding the adoption of smart intersection in four US college towns, structured by the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework, calls for deliberative, slow-governance of public data to respect human rights and align with community norms.
This special issue brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to identify the human rights implications of algorithmic, biometric and smart city technologies and the means to govern them. In the editorial, we propose a framework for the analysis and design of human-rights-based smart cities.
The article identifies critical blindspots in current European AI policies and explores the impact of AI technologies in the media and communications sector, based on a novel multi-level analytical framework.
On the inadequacy of the risk-based approach for generative and general purpose AI.
The policies and content moderation practices of social media companies are not well equipped to recognise how and when humour harms. All too-often, therefore, platforms take down important harmless humour while they fail to effectively moderate humour that sows division and hate.
The role of voluntary standards as intermediaries in the application of the Right to Data Portability: an empirical analysis.