News and Research articles on Accountability

Accountability protocols? On-chain dynamics in blockchain governance

Kelsie Nabben, European University Institute
Primavera De Filippi, National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS)
PUBLISHED ON: 8 Oct 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.4.1807

This paper focuses on the dynamics of accountability in blockchain governance. Drawing on a case study of the Lido protocol on Ethereum, it explores the rule of code, on-chain accountability, accountability trade-offs, and the complexities of determining when accountability can be better instantiated via on-chain or off-chain mechanisms.

Traceability

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Copenhagen Business School
Matthew Archer, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
Louis Ravn, Copenhagen Business School
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1646

This glossary entry explores traceability which is an increasingly prominent research topic in decentralised technosocial systems in fields as diverse as health, sustainability, finance, and supply chain management and relates to the ability to trace something or someone.

Explanations of news personalisation across countries and media types

Mariella Bastian, University of Amsterdam
Mykola Makhortykh, University of Bern
Jaron Harambam, Leuven University
Max van Drunen, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 13 Oct 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.4.1504

We examined how news personalisation is communicated through privacy policies of quality and popular media outlets in the Netherlands, Russia and Brazil.