News and Research articles on Digital platforms

In order to understand the sociodemographic origins of content moderation norms enacted by internet users, it is essential to view moderation as a socially determined and spatialised practice.

We develop an approach to observe the algorithmically-tuned nature of digital advertising by creating visualisations of ad sequences from a citizen scientist data-donation project.

A platform policy implementation audit of how major digital platforms implemented their content moderation policies towards RT and Sputnik accounts at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It shows a wide, yet inconsistent range of measures taken by tech giants.

This article examines epistemic uncertainty about the nature and extent of fake accounts on social media and the implications therein.

While the upload filters introduced by the EU copyright reform are being transposed into national law, this study examines how uploaders perceive copyright regulation and what further demands they have.

Google Scholar’s platform dynamics undermine the academy’s ability to understand how it evaluates itself.

This paper considers the logic of ‘platform care’ as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour.

We provide a theoretical framework to systematise content gaps in Wikipedia and then use it to examine how this platform shapes women's visibility.

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.

This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias. Introduction Wanghong is short for the Chinese term “wangluo hongren”: people who have gone viral online. Covering a wide spectrum of participants including video uploader, vlogger, popular accounts on diverse social media, wanghong refers to a particular stream of vocational Chinese internet celebrities that have acquired their celebrity online and have acute incentives through various models to liquidate such online influence by transforming followers into consumers (Han, 2020a). As of late, the wanghong economy in China …

This research investigates EU member states’ preferences and coalitions in recent negotiations of the Council of the EU related to the digital single market.

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.