The paper proposes a human rights-based approach to regulating the algorithmic determinants of health evident in online platform food advertising.
News and Research articles on Platform governance
This introduction explores how the evolution of the metaverse as an additional virtual public sphere challenges existing governance frameworks, and demonstrates the need for a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach to adapting and re-imagining these frameworks.
This work discusses the emerging concept of the metaverse from a lens of interoperability. By drawing on literature from the political economy of digital platforms, varieties of capitalism, and cybergovernance it proposes a framework based on openness and closure as well as security and economic interests to illustrate four models based on examples from the infrastructure layer comprising metaverse technologies.
Avatarobots, synthetic majorities and the struggle for democratic agency in the metaverse.
This paper explores whether the EU’s platform governance framework, designed for non-immersive social media platforms, is fit to safeguard copyright’s fair balance and promote robust democratic discourse in immersive virtual public spaces.
Article 18 of the European Media Freedom Act presents a paradox: instead of mitigating platforms’ power over media freedom, it risks institutionalising and reinforcing it by allowing them to shape the regulation’s implementation.
Regulation is moving platforms. But is it moving them in ways that actually protect children? A two-year comparison of regulatory monitoring data suggests the answer is more complicated than it looks.
This article explores how political fear operates as an infrastructural mechanism within digital platforms, reconfiguring democratic communication through algorithmic amplification, emotional governance, and regulatory gaps.
This paper proposes a voluntary user badge that rewards commitment to civic norms in digital platform communication with increased visibility, aiming to enhance discourse quality and restructure attention distribution.
This paper explores how the Digital Services Act’s Transparency Database enables platform observability, revealing critical insights into the practices of content moderation across the EU.
The struggles of African professionals shut out of LinkedIn reveal how digital identity systems, if poorly designed, can erode rights and opportunities anywhere, even in Europe.
This article explores TikTok's platform governance of monetisation by systematically examining the classification of influencers and monetisation practices in TikTok’s platform documentation.
This article compares the Stop Hate for Profit campaign and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media to evaluate efforts that leverage advertisers’ financial power to challenge platform content moderation.
Content moderation encompasses a great diversity of actors who develop specific practices. Their precise contribution to the democratisation of content regulation, and to the balance between public and private interests in platform governance, remains little studied. This special issue is an attempt at remedying this.
Ideological differences, financial precarity, and tensions within the milieu of digital rights civil society organisations involved in platform governance advocacy can undermine these organisations’ ability to advocate for reform at all, let alone engage in a radical redefinition of the terms under which (platform) governance takes place.
Although commercial social media platforms provide few formal channels for participation in platform governance, creators aspire to influence decisions and policies through expressive forms of civic engagement that ultimately legitimate platforms as arbiters of public discourse.
This study examines experts' role within the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation, highlighting challenges in co-regulatory processes and platform governance.
An analysis of platform lobbying and policy influence during the Digital Services Act negotiations in the EU.
Despite few formal opportunities to participate in platform governance, social media creators use public callouts to shape community norms and place pressure on the platform.
Decentralised content moderation describes and potentially advocates for moderation infrastructures in which both the authority and the responsibility to moderate are distributed over a plurality of actors or institutions.