This article proposes the concept of platform observability to help systematically study complex algorithmic systems. It sets out three broad principles as guidelines for making platforms more accountable.
Research articles on GOVERNANCE
This article provides an overview of the Value Sensitive Design (VSD) methodology and explores how it can enrich the current debates on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning.
Cybersecurity describes technical and social measures needed to protect networked information systems. But its evolution has led to concerns of inappropriate militarisation.
This essay analyses how the key concept of digital sovereignty has evolved into a discursive practice in digital policy worldwide.
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.