Great research presented by @cka, thanks to semantic analysis of Community Guidelines over time: yes, platforms do react to pressure.
See how the politicisation of #misinformation in politics (#FakeNews), then in health (Covid), now of #FreeSpeech, is directly visible in the number of rules that relate to the topics!
Very proud of our ongoing years-long @opentermsarchive partnership with @zemki that enables such findings 
#AoIR #PlatformGovernance
Very proud to see so visibly on this graph how the switch to @opentermsarchive enables researchers to gather significantly more data to understand and analyse #PlatformGovernance (see the increase in data points in 2022) 
#AoIR
Fascinating: we know very little of the ownership structure of Bytedance (#TikTok ), #BlueSky, or… #xAI.
#PlatformGovernance #AoIR
9 participants from 4 countries joined last week’s #CommunityCall to talk about #PlatformGovernance w/ @cka , Kim Ermler, Zenobio Almeida & Gleb Tomashevski from @zemki's @pgmt, @unibremen.
They use @opentermsarchive to track how #SocialMedia platforms evolve within shifting regulatory environments and shared how they’re building a sustainable, professional research team, onboarding challenges and all (Zenobio's graph was a hit!)
Today is this month's #CommunityCall ! Call in from 09:00 to 10:00 UTC at: https://meet.jit.si/OpenTermsArchiveCommunityCall to:
Get updates about the latest features 
Learn about the PGA Collection with @@cka, Kim Ermler, and Zenobio Almeida! 
Get real-time tech support from the core team to track and maintain your existing collections
#PlatformGovernance #Transparency #DigitalCommons #TechForGood
>> Call for applications: School on Platform Governance to be held in Bangkok, Thailand (28-31 July, 2025).
---> Participants will engage with experts and practitioners currently working on platform and tech accountability at the regional and international level.
https://www.apc.org/en/news/call-applications-school-platform-governance
“Meta’s recent changes are part of a larger shift by US tech companies to align with conservative leaders, which will have implications for global efforts towards information integrity.”
New #wjds paper by Ned Watt, Silvia Montaña-Niño, and Michelle Riedlinger:
ZeMKI members Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach published their new paper “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety” in the Platforms & Society Journal. #censorship #PlatformGovernance #saftey #values
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/new-publication-by-paloma-viejo-otero-and-rebecca-scharlach/
Have you heard of "consensus-building" moderation mechanisms?
Join us tomorrow at 3pm to find out!
When Emillie de Keulenaar presents consensus-building content moderation techniques as an alternative to suspension, demotion, and flagging in the next installment of our wonderful online talk series "Behind the Scenes".
Tarleton Gillespie is speaking at @AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen!
Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for this year’s theme, "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance” where scholars will discuss critical issues in the field.
Call for Papers – Submit by February 15!
Full Call for Papers & Submission Link: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
@ubiquity75 is speaking at @AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen!
Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for this year’s theme, "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance” where scholars will discuss critical issues in the field.
Call for Papers – Submit by February 15!
Full Call for Papers & Submission Link: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
Exciting Guest Lectures at UCD!
We are delighted to announce that our lab member @Palomaviejo will be delivering two guest lectures at University College Dublin (UCD), in the School of Information and Communication Studies (ICS), alongside Associate Professor Ariadna Matamoros and Professor Eugenia Siapera on February 18 and 20.
These sessions will be a fantastic opportunity to discuss #PlatformGovernance and #SocialJustice, as well as Paloma’s latest book, with UCD’s students and faculty.
@Nhelberger is speaking at @AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen!
Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for this year’s theme, "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance” where scholars will discuss critical issues in the field.
Call for Papers – Submit by February 15!
Full Call for Papers & Submission Link: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
@tpoell (Thomas Poell) is speaking at @AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen!
Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for this year’s theme, "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance," that will bring together leading scholars to explore critical issues in digital research.
Call for Papers – Submit by February 15! Full Call for Papers & Submission Link:
https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
The Corporate Governance Paradox: Why Big Tech Platforms Are Structurally Incapable of Good Governance
In a world where social media giants are increasingly viewed as modern-day Marleys, the structural deficiencies of these platforms are laid bare. This article delves into the inherent contradictions o...
“Perspectives on Platform Governance”
On 2 and 3 December, our lab hosted a workshop between four YUFE partner universities, researchers and educators to jointly design an @EUErasmusPlus Blended Intensive Program (BIP) related to the governance of digital technologies.
Stay tuned for the new YUFE BIP on "Platform and AI Governance", which may launch as early as the 2025/2026 academic year!
We are hiring a part time business developer! Help us grow usage and funding sources to reach better regulations on #BigTech, support #privacy research, investigate how #GenAI impacts society, equip consumer protection…
Apply by November 10 if you are interested in influencing #PlatformGovernance, speak good French and English and know how to work full remote: https://cloud.opentermsarchive.org/index.php/s/cZpyaWcPL7CHSte
#AI #ML #ContentModeration #LLMs #ModelMarketplaces #PlatformGovernance: "The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries, such as Hugging Face, which provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model marketplaces lower technical deployment barriers for hundreds of thousands of users, yet can be used in numerous potentially harmful and illegal ways. In this article, we explain the ways in which AI systems, which can both ‘contain’ content and be open-ended tools, present one of the trickiest platform governance challenges seen to date. We provide case studies of several incidents across three illustrative platforms – Hugging Face, GitHub and Civitai – to examine how model marketplaces moderate models. Building on this analysis, we outline important (and yet nevertheless limited) practices that industry has been developing to respond to moderation demands: licensing, access and use restrictions, automated content moderation, and open policy development. While the policy challenge at hand is a considerable one, we conclude with some ideas as to how platforms could better mobilise resources to act as a careful, fair, and proportionate regulatory access point."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17579961.2024.2388914
The #EU Digital Services Act emphasizes data access & algorithmic accountability. But why does this focus matter in the #DSA framework, & why should it be fully weighted against opposing interests?
New paper by Paddy Leerssen:
https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/4.2.3
via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society #wjds
#openaccess #Transparency #SocialMedia #algorithms #Observability #platformgovernance #regulation #law @dsaobservatory @WZB_Berlin @FOKUSpublic
Fun drinking game for the next 9-12 months: take a shot every time a news article uses the phrase "Section 230" or "chilling effect on free speech" -- that way you'll be in the hospital with liver poisoning instead of having to keep up with all the TikTok news and court challenges
#tiktok #USpol #platformGovernance #regulation #techRegulation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-senate-vote-sale-biden/
