Complex and possibly irreversible legal initiatives - that normally take years to be debated and responsively shaped - are being implemented overnight.
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Feel like living in a dystopia? Take a deep breath, get a strong coffee, and let us challenge your ideas of where reality ends, and sci-fi begins…
Online research
The implications of venturing down the rabbit hole
While conducting research on YouTube’s algorithms, three researchers discovered that YouTube’s recommendations had created a community of sexually suggestive channels. When they shared their findings with The New York Times, YouTube implemented changes, and US lawmakers demanded consequences.
This issue brings together a selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology section of the IAMCR conference in 2018.
Christina, you’ve been an editor at an open access journal yourself and are now spearheading open access at Freie Universität Berlin. We have a candid and naive question for you: what does open access mean in 2018? I think that in 2018 it is pretty obvious that we’re not discussing whether open access is the way to go, but rather how we can ensure
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Facebook shuts the gate after the horse has bolted, and hurts real research in the process
In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. Researchers at leading international research organisations are deeply concerned about collateral impacts of the new API access rules. Here is why.
Internet access
Remembering Mustafa Akgül
Mustafa Akgül of Bilkent University passed away on 13 December 2017 after a long battle with cancer. Commonly regarded as the "father of the internet in Turkey," he was one of the most important figures in establishing the first internet connection in Turkey on 12 April 1993.
Internet of things
The emergence of the Internet of Anonymous Things (AnIoT)
The rapid development of the Internet of Things - or IoT - affects the protection of privacy in profound ways. Eduardo Magrani argues in favour of a shift from privacy protection to the idea a “right to non-tracking”.
Disclosing and concealing: internet governance, information control and the management of visibility
Datafication leads to subtle forms of governance; this article explores them by drawing on science and technology studies as well as sociologies of visibility.
How did early network designers govern the internet before internet governance? With archival research, this article shows how designers conceived of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a solution to the problem of governing future network users.
