News and Research articles on Social media practices

Volume 12, Issue 1

Humour as an online safety issue: Exploring solutions to help platforms better address this form of expression

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology
Louisa Bartolo, Queensland University of Technology
Luke Troynar, Queensland University of Technology
PUBLISHED ON: 25 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1677

The policies and content moderation practices of social media companies are not well equipped to recognise how and when humour harms. All too-often, therefore, platforms take down important harmless humour while they fail to effectively moderate humour that sows division and hate.

KEYWORDS: Humour, Online safety, Social media practices, Content moderation
Volume 7, Issue 2

Political topic-communities and their framing practices in the Dutch Twittersphere

Maranke Wieringa, Utrecht University
Daniela van Geenen, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Utrecht University
Ludo Gorzeman, Utrecht University
PUBLISHED ON: 15 May 2018 DOI: 10.14763/2018.2.793

This paper analyses the selection, dissemination, and framing of media messages in day-to-day politics topic communities on Twitter

KEYWORDS: Echo chambers, Framing, Political homophily, Social filtering, Social media practices