News and Research articles on Cybercrime

Addressing gendered affordances of the platform economy: the case of UpWork

Elisabetta Stringhi, University of Milan
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1634

UpWork affordances are gendered affordances, since male users are allowed different conducts compared to female freelancers, who experience cyberviolence. UpWork serves as a case study to investigate the relationship between digital platform functioning and gender inequality in a platform economy context.

Assessing Europe’s cyber challenges

Francesca Bosco, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jan 2015

Is Europe today ready to combat existing and emerging cyber threats? United Nations researcher Francesca Bosco points at weak spots, both law making and enforcement.