This paper examines data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions - including the role of the state. It also highlights the role of platforms in gatekeeping mobile app privacy standards.
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Intermediary liability
The President and free speech: consequences of Twitter’s fact-checking indication
Since Twitter labelled a tweet by Donald Trump as ‘potentially misleading’ and indicated that it was fact-checking the statement made, the US President signed an ‘ Executive Order'. Amélie Heldt finds that far from being new, the situation illustrates how torn we are when it comes to intermediary immunity or rather liability.
Platform governance
Coronavirus and the frailness of platform governance
Will this crisis finally change how social media make editorial decisions?
Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.
Focusing on whether data-intensive technologies used in political campaigning are accurate and effective misses the point about their larger role in politics. This piece briefly addresses the popular question of “Does it work?” and suggests a series of questions and provocations that aim to more holistically capture the extent of tech-led
This paper shows how platforms are transient in the policies, procedures, and affordances and details the implications for politics.
This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Tartu, Estonia.
Big crisis data presuppose the ongoing calculation and valuation of (transient) events, producing both singular and networked events and actors.
Multi-sided online platforms such as social networks, search services and trading platforms can benefit society in important ways. This paper examines the competition effects of data portability among these platforms.
Contrary to expectations of a “net empowerment”, net neutrality debates on Twitter show that established political and media actors still play important roles.
