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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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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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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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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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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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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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Social Media Handbuch: Theorien, Methoden, Modelle und Praxis
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 4., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2021), 402 pp.
"Das Social Media Handbuch begleitet langfristige Entwicklungen im sich ständig wandelnden Social Media Bereich und erklärt grundsätzliche Zusammenhänge. Es beschreibt ein Strategiemodell für die Entwicklung eigener Lösungen, fasst Theorien, Methoden und Modelle führender Autoren zusammen und
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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 Fall of Kabul: When Platforms Enable Propaganda
Centre for International Governance Innovation, August 27 (2021)
"Social media companies face an increasingly urgent ethical dilemma about the use of their platforms by Taliban officials and supporters." (Introduction)
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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Platform Alternatives: The Strategic Guide to Responsible Platform Business
Berlin; Oxford: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG); Oxford Internet Institute (2021), 50 pp.
"The Strategic Guide to Responsible Platform Business highlights alternative strategies that platform organisations can pursue to acknowledge and mitigate platform capitalism’s problematic tendencies. While it is informative for policymakers and civil society, the Guide is mainly meant to be a res
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Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2021), 41 pp.
"1. Global internet freedom declined for the 11th consecutive year. The greatest deteriorations were documented in Myanmar, Belarus, and Uganda, where state forces cracked down amid electoral and constitutional crises. Myanmar’s 14-point score decline is the largest registered since the Freedom on
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Atlas der digitalen Welt
Deep Insights
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2020), 271 pp.
"Jeder, der sich in irgendeiner Form mit digitalen Medien beschäftigt, lebt in einer paradoxen Welt: Denn zu keinem Feld existieren mehr Daten, Informationen und Statistiken. Aber zugleich handelt es sich stets um isolierte, winzige Partikel und Fragmente, die sich nicht integrieren lassen. Das Pro
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Data Feast: Enterprises and Personal Data in Latin America
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 196 pp.
From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 6: 2424 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser
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YouTube y la comunicación del siglo XXI
Quito: CIESPAL (2020), 184 pp.
Communication, Development and Social Participation in China
Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
Festín de datos: Empresas y datos personales en América Latina
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 204 pp.
