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For content creators, whose careers rely on digital visibility, hate and harassment are an occupational hazard that impacts creators’ mental health, and in cases where online harassment spills offline, physical […]
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Platform-side Trust and Safety (T&S) is the crucial paid work of responding to and mitigating harmful content and behavior online and beyond. It is characterized by complexity, ambiguity, urgency, and […]
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Video-sharing platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram implement content moderation policies to reduce the exposure of minors to harmful videos. As video has become the dominant and most immersive […]
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AI companion bots are reshaping how people connect, confide, and cope, with children and adolescents among their most active users. Even as evidence of their potential social and developmental harms […]
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This anthology is the result of a global collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and activists who come together to reflect on the expanding role of platforms in an increasingly digitized world. […]
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João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester, UK), Klara Matusewicz (University of Manchester, UK), and Robert Gorwa (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) are organising a two-day workshop, The Politics of […]
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Early enthusiasts imagined a cyberspace free from centralized control. Today, Internet platforms surveil and regulate user activity through systematic governance mechanisms, including content moderation. This article examines how centralized control […]
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This article discusses Twitter’s mutation into X under Elon Musk, analyzing its shift from a mainstream platform to a far-right-aligned space. Through a novel conceptualization of institutional change in Trust […]
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The future of work (FoW), that is, how new technologies from automation to artificial intelligence affect the workplace, has become such a salient topic that its framing matters for the […]
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Control over digital interfaces has become a significant aspect of geopolitical struggles. This article advances an analytical framework illuminating how global communication power manifests across three key interfaces: search engines, […]
