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El señor YouTube und die Welten der Plattformen: Mexiko in den virtuell-medialen Räumen der Produktion und Vernetzung
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter (2024), 393 pp.
"Plattformen konstruieren kulturelle Räume aus Kanälen, Memes, Videos, ‚lo-fi‘ Remixen, Cumbias und ‚piñatas‘. Diese Räume werden in der vorliegenden Studie literatur-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftlich betrachtet, wodurch sich transkulturelle und -mediale Perspektiven auf Konzepte wie
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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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Contesting personalized recommender systems: A cross-country analysis of user preferences
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube wield substantial influence over digital information flows using sophisticated algorithmic recommender systems (RS). As these systems curate personalized content, concerns have emerged about their propensity to amplify polar
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News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 2 (2024), pp. 459-484
"Does the news media exacerbate or reduce misinformation problems? Although some news media deliberately try to counter misinformation, it has been suggested that they might also inadvertently, and sometimes purposefully, amplify it. We conducted a two-wave panel survey in Brazil, India, and the UK
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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who
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The Platformisation of Consumer Culture: A Digital Methods Guide
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 282 pp.
"This book offers a unique methodological guide for social and marketing scholars interested in understanding and using digital methods to explore the processes of platformisation of consumer culture unfolding on digital media. The book introduces the reader to key digital methods concepts, strategi
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Countering violent extremism through internet intermediaries: A typology for cross-country comparison
Global Media and Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2024), pp. 3-22
"This paper examines the counter-violent extremism and anti-terrorism measures in Australia, China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States by investigating how governments leveraged internet intermediaries as their surrogate censors. Particular attention is paid to how political rhetoric l
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"Dieser Report bietet einen Überblick über die im NOTORIOUS Projekt entwickelten und angewandten Methoden und Strategien zur Erhebung und Analyse von Mehrplattform-Social-Media-Daten mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Aufdeckung von Desinformationsnarrativen. Zur Datensammlung erwiesen sich explorative
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The digital covenant: Non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2024), pp. 3275-3291
"The majority of scholarship on platform governance focuses on for-profit, corporate social media with highly centralized network structures. Instead, we show how non-centralized platform governance functions in the Mastodon social network. Through an analysis of survey data, Github and Discourse de
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Advancing Cloud and Data Infrastructure Markets: Strategic Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xx, 139 pp.
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2024), xiii, 241 pp.
"Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and polit
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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.
"This paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector. We examine this phenomenon through the lens of Van Dijck e
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A return of dominant paradigm in China: Making Alibaba a development solution for rural China and the globe
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 21 pp.
"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
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Fairwork Nigeria Ratings 2023: Advocating for Increased Safety and Security in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
State of Play: Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet 2022
Tech Against Terrorism (2023), 32 pp.
"This report covers key trends and developments in terrorist and violent extremist (TVE) use of the internet over 2022. It aims to highlight the principal shifts in TVE behaviour and tactics online, and to inform more comprehensive, cross-industry responses to countering TVE exploitation of the inte
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