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How Journalists Can Address Misinformation on Telegram
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 35 pp.
"As of July 2021, Telegram had 550 million active users worldwide – more than the individual user bases of Twitter, Snapchat or Discord. It is the fifth most-popular messaging app after Facebook-owned Whatsapp and Messenger, and WeChat and QQ which dominate the Chinese market [...] For this paper,
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YouTube Regrets: A Crowdsourced Investigation Into YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm
Mozilla (2021), 39 pp.
"YouTube is the second-most visited website in the world, and its algorithm drives 70% of watch time on the platform—an estimated 700 million hours every single day. For years, that recommendation algorithm has helped spread health misinformation, political disinformation, hateful diatribes, and o
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Recommended Reading: Amazon’s Algorithms, Conspiracy Theories and Extremist Literature
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 22 pp.
"The role of algorithms in propelling conspiracy theories and radicalisation has been brought into sharp focus by the interlocking crises of the past 12 months. Social media platforms have sought to tamp down on algorithmic recommendation of conspiracy theories and extremist content, for example by
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Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen: Eine Einführung
Deep Insights
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 338 pp.
"Wer ein Wiki erforschen will, muss sich ein passendes Forschungsdesign aufbauen. Wer den Umgang mit Wikis unterrichten will, braucht ein Curriculum mit den einzelnen Arbeitsschritten. Wer ein Wiki unterstützen oder im Unternehmen einsetzen will, erstellt einen Arbeitsplan mit geeigneten Förderma
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Taming Big Tech: A Pro-Competitive Solution to Protect Free Expression
London: Article 19 (2021), 42 pp.
"In this policy, ARTICLE 19 outlines how open markets, competition, and users’ empowerment can help address current freedom of expression challenges in online content curation. We offer practical solutions on how to achieve these objectives through a pro-competitive instrument: the unbundling of t
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TikTok: Más allá de la hipermedialidad
Quito: Abya-Yala; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2021), 155 pp.
La protección del espacio cívico en línea: Un repaso a las amenazas actuales a la libertad de expresión en internet
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (2021), 32 pp.
"La Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) tiene la misión de defender los derechos fundamentales mediante la contribución al diseño de políticas por parte del sector público y privado. Las respuestas de los gobiernos deben promover un espacio público amplio y robusto en internet. Este deb
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De-Westernizing Platform Studies: History and Logics of Chinese and U.S. Platforms
International Journal of Communication, volume 15 (2021), pp. 103-122
"The emergence of digital platforms has attracted considerable scholarly attention among media theorists. Yet, much of this scholarship has taken Western platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Netflix, Uber, and so on, as exemplars. In this article, we seek to contribute to the proj
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The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xv, 297 pp.
"The book begins by interrogating globalization as a critical and intensely contested concept, and proceeds to explore how digital media have influenced a complex set of globalization processes in broad international and comparative contexts. Contributors address a number of key political, economic,
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Watching the Watchmen: Content Moderation, Governance, and Freedom of Expression
London: Article 19 (2021), 86 pp.
Final Report
Aspen Institute (2021), 78 pp.
"This report is the culmination of an in-depth investigation aimed at better defining the causes and challenges of information disorder, and offering a viable framework for action [...] The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder invited voices from across our society to help build up
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Communication Infrastructure and Community Mobilization: The Case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 Response Network for the Marginalized in India
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86
"In this article, we employed communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to analyze Gram Vaani’s (“Voice of the Village”) Covid-19 Response Network in India. We reviewed key CIT components (i.e., storytelling network and communication action context) and their applications in civic engagement,
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Schluss mit lustig? TikTok als Plattform für politische Kommunikation
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2021), 22 pp.
"Verständnis der technischen und kulturellen Besonderheiten der algorithmusgetriebenen App, die vorhandene Bestandteile bereits bekannter Social-Media-Plattformen kombiniert und weiterentwickelt. Statt Reichweitenaufbau geht es bei TikTok um Vertrauensaufbau. Mithilfe eines Analyserasters werden im
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Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), vii, 315 pp.
"This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture - how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel
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Ill Advice: A Case Study in Facebook’s Failure to Tackle COVID-19 Disinformation
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 34 pp.
"Despite detailed policies on mis- and disinformation and promises to enforce them, social media platforms are failing to tackle prominent groups and individuals who spread false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines online. Using the World Doctors Alliance1 as a case study, a group that has spread var
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The "Hate Speech" Policies of Major Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Montevideo: UNESCO Office Montevideo and Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021), 32 pp.
"This document reports an increase in so-called “hate speech” posts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although dissimilar, such an increase can be observed in the transparency reports of the different platforms and the surge in content moderation since M
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