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Middleware, third-party software intermediaries between users and platforms, has been broached as a means to decentralize the power of social media platforms and enhance user agency. Middleware may enable a […]
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In two fields that are currently of high political salience and strategic significance – the regulation of digital platforms, and the regulation of environmental and human rights impacts in global […]
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Social media faces a crisis of trust over the management of speech, with critics simultaneously arguing platforms remove too much and too little. Middleware, a recent market-oriented proposal for platform […]
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One trending application of LLM (large language model) is to use it for content moderation in online platforms. Most current studies on this application have focused on the metric of […]
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Intimate privacy violations exact profound costs to freedom, including chilling victims into silence; denying them sexual agency; and eroding trust critical to intimate expression and sharing. Effective intimate privacy protections […]
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This book charts the rise and fall of the ‘sharing economy’, the controversial lobbying tactics used by the central companies and the backlash seen so far. It offers key policy […]
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By Mateus Correia de Carvalho (PhD researcher, EUI) and Rachel Griffin (postdoctoral researcher, Duisburg-Essen University) This post presents the report ‘Who speaks and who is heard?’ on civil society participation […]
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This book is about words that fool us into thinking that the digital technologies we use every day are beautiful, benign, and consequence-free. The collection shows how metaphors used by […]
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Germany’s Network Enforcement Act (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz or NetzDG) entered into full force on January 1, 2018. Known colloquially as a “hate speech law,” it is arguably the most ambitious attempt by […]
