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Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms
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Richard Rogers (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2027), xix, 345 pp.

"Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms examines the challenges, methods, and practices of moderating digital content, offering critical insights into platform-specific moderation strategies and their societal implications. This book provides readers with advanced digital research methods ... more

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Governance of Social Media Platforms and Regulation of Online Media in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Türkiye

Andia Sokol, Lamija Kovačević, Sinem Aydınlı, Amer Džihana, Marina Grnja Klaić, Mihajlo Lahtov, Ilda Londo, Vesna Rajković

South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2026), 81 pp.

"The purpose of this study is to identify the current state of regulatory frameworks governing social media platforms and online media, as well as the main challenges related to the moderation and curation of verified public interest information on these media platforms. The target countries that ar ... more

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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
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Jian Xu, Shaohua Guo, Weiyu Zhang (eds.)

London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.

"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy

Zizi Papacharissi (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2026), xxii, 475 pp.

"A comprehensive collection that offers an overview of digital technologies and democratic practice, this Companion explores the topic of digital media and democracy from a historically rich and socio-culturally broad perspective. Edited by one of the foremost leaders in the field, Zizi Papacharissi ... more

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Digital Media Shadowing Democracy: Technology, Communication, and Power

Auksė Balčytienė, Péter Bajomi-Lázár, Helena Sousa (eds.)

Gothenburg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg (2026), 282 pp.

"The book’s message is brief: Liberal democracies are at risk. Democratic decay has numerous causes, but technological innovations and profit-driven dynamics are shaping societal relations in ways that intensify disagreements and polarisation, undermining informed citizenship. The growing number o ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Social Media Influencers

Nils S. Borchers, Mariah L. Wellman, Liselot Hudders (eds.)

London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 449 pp.

" As masters of large followerships, influencers can direct online attention and engagement toward certain topics—and away from others. Followers build long-lasting relationships with their favorite influencers and trust their authentic recommendations and advice. This makes them sought-after coop ... more

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Companion AI: Risiken von sykophantischen und suchtfördernden Designs von KI-Systemen, ihre rechtliche Erfassung und Handlungsempfehlungen
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Ramak Molavi-Vasse’i

Berlin: Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie (2026), 82 pp.

"Diese Studie untersucht Risiken von KI-Systemen, die im fortlaufenden Dialog mit Nutzern Emotionen erkennen, persönliche Bedürfnisse adressieren und darauf reagieren. Chatbots mit dieser Funktionalität werden als Companion-AI bezeichnet. Sie sind hochgradig personalisiert und treten Nutzern als ... soziales Gegenüber entgegen, das freundschaftliche, romantische oder sexuelle Nähe simuliert. Menschen können zu solchen Systemen eine emotionale Bindung aufbauen. Der Fokus liegt nicht nur auf spezifischen Companion-Anwendungen wie Replika oder Character.AI, sondern auch auf Universalmodellen wie ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok oder Meta-AI. Diese Systeme werden zunehmend für persönliche, emotionale und beratende Gespräche genutzt. Die Untersuchung kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Companion-AI mehrere eng miteinander verbundene Risikodimensionen erzeugt. Psychische und physische Gesundheit: Companion-AI trifft auf eine Gesellschaft, in der Einsamkeit und psychische Belastungen zunehmen, während professionelle Versorgungsangebote knapp sind. Die möglichen Risiken sind klinisch belegt. Die Nutzung kann psychische Belastungen verursachen oder verstärken und in Einzelfällen gravierende Gesundheitsfolgen auslösen. Dokumentiert sind die Verschlimmerung psychotischer Zustände, die Verstärkung depressiver Muster und Angststörungen, suchtartige Bindungen mit Entzugssymptomen sowie die Erosion sozialer Kompetenzen, etwa eine messbar reduzierte Konfliktfähigkeit nach längerer Interaktion mit Companion-AI. Öffentlich bekannt gewordene Vorfälle sind in der Vorfall-Datenbank der Studie dokumentiert. Eingriff in die Privatsphäre: Companion-AI animieren Nutzer kontinuierlich zur Selbstoffenbarung und greifen damit in sensible Gedanken und die intime Gefühlssphäre der Nutzer ein. Zugleich ermöglicht die fortlaufende Interaktion eine zunehmend verdichtete Profilbildung. Entscheidungsautonomie und demokratische Meinungsbildung: Companion-AI können sowohl die Qualität von Informationen als auch die Entscheidungsautonomie der Bürger beeinträchtigen. Die Mechanismen, die Nähe und Vertrauen erzeugen, beeinflussen zugleich die Generierung, Aufnahme und Gewichtung von Informationen. Sykophanz, also die unkritische Bestätigung von Nutzeransichten, beeinträchtigt Genauigkeit und Verlässlichkeit der Antworten messbar. Sprachmodelle werden zunehmend als primäre Quelle der Informationssuche genutzt. Wenn dieselben Systeme Informationen erzeugen, beschaffen und präsentieren, fallen Selektion und Aufbereitung in einer Hand zusammen. Werbe- und interessengeleitete Einflussnahme greift dann nicht mehr nur in einzelne Kaufentscheidungen ein, sondern in die Voraussetzungen öffentlicher Meinungs- und demokratischer Willensbildung." (Executive summary, Seite 5) more

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Digital Dimensions of Conflict: Analyzing Malian conflict and violence through Social Media and Mixed-Methods Approach

Jelena Prokic, Luca Bruls, Mirjam de Bruijn

Digital Culture and Society, volume 11, issue 2 (2026), pp. 199-222

"Our findings show that Twitter is a battlefield of imaginaries of conflict. Ford and Hoskins (2022: 117-68) would refer to this as ‘attention’ in which the war is archived, defined, and imagined. People who participate in conflict-Twitter are no longer passive actors in conflict, but they shape ... it by their online behavior. Although many users rarely initiate debates or engage in discussions, they shape the content’s visibility and interpretation through what they tweet, retweet, and amplify. As such attention itself becomes a form of involvement. Meanwhile, Twitter users who create messages focus on certain parts or layers of conflict. Hence, those who click, read, and retweet endorse these imaginations or representations of war. Tracing digital war on Twitter revealed 4 clusters of imaginaries: 1. National politics referring to the role of the French, the arrival of the Russians, and the government’s events and celebrations. 2. International politics that discuss ECOWAS sanctions, the role of France, Russia, the European Union and MINUSMA, reference to news agencies RFI and France 24, as well as a discussion of Ukraine. 3. The economic and security situation which affect the population. 4. The local violence that results in massacres, killings, the role of jihadist groups, framed as ‘terrorists’. Imaginaries 1 and 2 are most prominent. The tweets on politics have a supportive tone for the actions of the government. They are anti-French and supportive of Russia. Imaginary 3 popped up especially in the frequency and keyword analysis. The crisis related to national politics, under IBK and later under Assimi Goïta, is a consequence of the political and economic situation of Mali that the population immediately feel in their daily life. Imaginary 4 occupies a small space in Twitter discussions. Twitter users hardly discuss the horrific atrocities of the conflict. We conclude that Twitter discursive practice generally has a positive attitude towards the military government and is supportive of its measures. Twitter does show popular reasons for protest, which addresses the economic situation in daily life and the ‘hatred’ of the French military interventions. However, Twitter users hardly discuss violence against civilians, which we as ethnographers considered as important events in the conflict. Hence these events do not enter the general Twitter discourse on conflict. Twitter creates an imagination of the war in which extremely violent events are avoided. As a result, Twitter informs the public on the heroic actions of the Malian army and legitimizes the government as a righteous actor in the conflict. Due to the selective framing and circulation of content that celebrates the violent state on Twitter, cultural violence and participatory warfare emerge. Users participate not through debating or addressing massacres against civilians, but by amplifying political and geopolitical narratives through tweeting and retweeting. They thereby normalize a pro-government imagination of war. Malians read and participate in Twitter to find news about the situation in their country. They ‘trust’ Twitter. For many it is one of the only reliable media where they can find information about conflict, or about the political situation in the country. This comes close to Galtung’s definition of cultural violence, information that legitimizes actions of the government and military, or information that feeds biased interpretations. Twitter helps them to legitimize the protests and the actions of the government. The silencing of massacres and violence also influences people’s opinions as they do not ‘see’ the horrors of the conflict. Hence, Twitter operates as a medium through which digital cultural violence is produced and transmitted." (Discussion and Conclusion, pages 218-219) more

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Global South Creator Cultures

Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta (eds.)

New Delhi: Routledge India (2026), x, 196 pp.

"Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their work, offering a four-part conceptual framework for studying creator cultures. Rather than ... more

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Safety by Design: Pathways to Safer Social Media Platforms

Berlin: HateAid (2026), 18 pp.

"Europe’s approach to platform regulation is uniquely rooted in its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. To defend these principles and safeguard its digital sovereignty, the EU must assert the user rights enshrined in its legislation—resisting both the ... more

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Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader

Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw, Jonathan Gray (eds.)

New York: New York University Press (2026), x, 454 pp.

"The story of global media is not one of seamless connection or cultural homogenization. Planet Digital challenges the myth of a “global village,” revealing instead how regional histories, infrastructures, economies, and power relations shape the uneven terrains of our digital world. Edited by t ... more

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Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame

Crystal Abidin

Cambridge; Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press (2026), xvi, 192 pp.

‘Child Influencers’ have historically been used as a ‘catch-all’ term to refer to all forms of children who acquire some form of online celebrity. But as the chapters of this book will demonstrate, the early histories of ‘Mummy Bloggers’ (chapter 1), ‘Micro-Microcelebrity’ (chapter 2 ... more

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Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order

Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen, Eric Schmidt

Foreign Affairs, October 20 (2026)

"Empires require enormous resources and capital to survive. They begin by exploiting economies of political and military scale and end by exhausting themselves defending their domains. AI is the most capital-intensive imperial project in history, undertaken by two superpowers that are already weighe ... more

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Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution

Rahul Mukherjee

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2026), viii, 311 pp.

"I conceptualize mobilities (un) limited by attending to three interrelated aspects. First, there are the sociopo litical changes in India that shape and are shaped by the shifting affordances of the mobile phone from 2010 to 2025. The affordances of the mobile phone itself have changed as storage a ... nd distribution technologies have been transformed and erstwhile separate forces and flows of mobile computing, cloud computing, big data analytics, and social media networks have converged into mobile media apps. The book explores the relation between such techno material shifts in mobile phones and the changes in agential capacities, attitudes, and political subjectivities of Indian citizens. Second, digital infrastructures are emerging to move content, data, and money to reach mobile phone users in India. Studying these distribution assemblages involves tracing socio technical practices of content delivery networks (CDNs) and analyzing the role of formal and informal human and nonhuman intermediaries, including mobile repair shop owners and credit scoring algorithms in distribution systems. Third, with mobilities (un)limited, the focus is on the mutual imbrication of aspirational politics and media distribution, particularly around the questions of who, among India’s citizens, has access to platforms (WhatsApp, TikTok) and how they can represent themselves and circulate such represen ta tions, and who has access to networks of government delivery services and financial technology (fintech) apps and with what consequences? The Indian government envisions the mobile phone as the site of not only media content but also digital payments. With the circulation of digital media content and money through/to our mobile phones, there is also the circulation of ideologies, practices, and expectations, which can potentially change socioeconomic be hav iors and media cultures. I argue that the specific designs of distribution platforms enact/impact particular forms and regimes of inclusion/exclusion and access/surveillance, which are negotiated by everyday phone users in their mobile digital practices. In this book, readers will find “unlimited” as a promissory note walking on two legs, one operating at the techno economic level and the other unfolding in the aspirational and experiential level. Both these runs of the “unlimited” promise unbounded horizons but are marked by constraints, whether they are logistical limitations or limits of an individual’s cognitive capacities or bound aries imposed by social stratifications. These related dimensions of the “unlimited” shape political subjectivities of Indian citizens and are deployed as governance strategies by state corporations, especially evident in “Digital India,” which is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship initiative aimed to connect the vast Indian population together and set targets of “universal mobile access” and “digital empowerment.” Beyond India’s cultural context and mobile phones, “we” are living amid a contemporary moment where the future is presented as a stage where we might be overwhelmed by abundance of some things and scarcity of other things, which will test the limits of “our” capacities and endurance. Amid the dangers of climate change and the hoopla around AI, technocapitalism(s) is remarkably adept at reinventing itself, presenting emerging visions of the future and society, asking us to recalibrate what ethical and bodily limits we are ready to cross." (Introduction, pages 4-5) more

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Governing Digital China

Daniela Stockmann, Ting Luo

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2026), xx, 273 pp.

"China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlight ... more

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Data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms: A conceptual proposal

Simon Egbert, Lena Ulbricht

Information, Communication & Society (2025), 22 pp.

"In this paper, we conceptualize platforms that aim at data integration and analysis as a distinct type of digital platform. Based on the existing literature on digital platforms in general, which so far did not engage with data integration and analysis platforms, we present a definition of data int ... more

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A return of dominant paradigm in China: Making Alibaba a development solution for rural China and the globe

Ziyi Wang

Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 3 (2025), pp. 396–416

"In 2011, Alibaba launched the Taobao Villages initiative, which enables rural e-commerce and connects rural sellers with urban buyers, highlighting the role of e-commerce platforms in reducing rural poverty. This approach was later integrated into national rural development policies. As the Digital ... more

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Greening digital companies 2025: Monitoring emissions and climate commitments

Geneva; Amsterdam: ITU; World Benchmarking Alliance (2025), 90 pp.

"The fourth edition of the Greening Digital Companies: Monitoring Emissions and Climate Commitments report continues to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy use and climate commitments of 200 digital companies. It provides a critical foundation for setting science-based targets (SBTs), measu ... more

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Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub Saharan Africa

Nick Mdika Tembo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xiv, 228 pp.

"This book examines the pervasive phenomenon of trauma and its narrative representation in social media platforms. The book specifically explores how, despite its pedagogical gains, the circulation and consumption of information on social media platforms may exacerbate mental health issues. Containi ... more

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Rechtsextreme Meme: Eine praxisorientierte Einführung für die Ausbildung in Polizei und Sozialwissenschaften

Vincent Knopp, Georgios Terizakis, Kai Denker, Eva Groß, Joachim Häfele, Daniela Pollich

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 320 pp.

"Rechtsextreme Weltanschauungen verbreiten sich durch das Internet schon bei Teenagern und stellen die Polizei vor Herausforderungen. Die selbsternannte "Neue Rechte" steht dabei beispielhaft für den steten Wandel der Szene: Sie inszeniert sich als moderne Jugendbewegung, die mit Memen kommuniziert ... more

Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms New

The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication Deep Insights

Companion AI: Risiken von sykophantischen und suchtfördernden Designs von KI-Systemen, ihre rechtliche Erfassung und Handlungsempfehlungen Deep Insights

Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights

Companion AI: Risiken von sykophantischen und suchtfördernden Designs von KI-Systemen, ihre rechtliche Erfassung und Handlungsempfehlungen
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