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Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2023: Still Pursuing Decent Work in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.
Fairwork Mexico Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Mexico; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
"An urgent finding of this first Fairwork Mexico report was impact platform work has on the physical and mental health of workers. Indeed, in megacities like Mexico City, and in urban environments marked by traffic congestion, pollution and fast-paced city life, workers’ bodies are being reduced t
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Der Kampf um das Internet: Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon und Co. die Tech-Giganten herausfordern
München: Beck (2023), 236 pp.
"Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets. Doch inzwischen konzentriert sich die Macht bei einigen wenigen Tech-Giganten. Dabei bietet das Netz selbst eine Lösung, um sein ursprüngliches Freiheitsversprechen zu bewahren: die nichtkommerzielle digitale Gegenwelt
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"This paper serves as a summary report for the Democracy and Internet Governance Initiative, a two-year joint initiative between Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. It delves into the rationale a
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Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 2: Platform's Own Policies and Practices: What Problems Need Changing?
Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 7 pp.
"Platform policies lack clarity about the relationship between them, and also about how policies should be applied at global and local levels. How platforms understand and identify harms is insufficiently mapped to human rights standards, and there is a gap in how policy elements should deal with di
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Fairwork Kenya Ratings 2023: The Promise and Peril of Platform Work in the Kenyan Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2023: Advocating for Safety and Dignity in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Lebanon Ratings 2023: Platform Work in Times of Crisis
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
Fairwork Morocco Ratings 2023: Assessing Working Conditions in the Moroccan Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
Social Media 4 Peace: Local Lessons for Global Practices
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.
"The three countries [Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Kenya] provide evidence of online hate speech and disinformation affecting human rights offline. The evidence is not comprehensive yet clear enough to raise serious concerns. Online gender-based violence is also reported as critical in the
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Fairwork Nigeria Ratings 2023: Advocating for Increased Safety and Security in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Bosnia and Herzegovina Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
"[...] la présente note d’orientation expose les principes potentiels d’un code de conduite qui aidera à guider les États Membres, les plateformes numériques et les autres parties prenantes dans les efforts qu’ils déploient pour rendre l’espace numérique plus inclusif et plus sûr pour
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Information Disorders in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Countries
Research ICT Africa (2023), 35 pp.
"This annotated bibliography compiles relevant literature on information disorders in Africa published in peer-reviewed academic journals in English. It is organised into several thematic sections, and has a particular focus on Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. While one must not lose sight of the d
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The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media
London: Bloomsbury; British Film Institute (bfi) (2023), ix, 174 pp.
"New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of social media platforms and their impact on contemporary film and television production, arguing that t
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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755
"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat
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