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Governing Digital China
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
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
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
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Global South Creator Cultures
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
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Digital vines: Mapping China’s network of global platform ecosystems
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"The world’s information systems are arguably owned by American and Chinese companies. So far, studies on China’s globalising Internet adopt either monolith approach or fragmented approach, lacking a comprehensive image to capture the architecture of China’s global information systems. Critica
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Data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms: A conceptual proposal
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
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TikTok: Prekäre Plattform
Die Politische Meinung, volume 70, issue 592 (2025), pp. 20-89
"Mit rund 1,5 Milliarden monatlichen Nutzern ist TikTok ein globaler Kommunikationsraum – und ein geopolitisches Machtinstrument. Die Plattform steht mit im Zentrum der Rivalität zwischen den USA und China. Washington drängt auf eine Abspaltung vom chinesischen Mutterkonzern ByteDance, während
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Determinants of fake news diffusion on social media: A systematic literature review
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication (GKMC), volume 74, issue 7-8 (2025), pp. 2069-2092
"This paper aims to explore the determinants causing fake information proliferation on social media platforms and the challenges to control the diffusion of fake news phenomena. The authors applied the systematic review methodology to conduct a synthetic analysis of 37 articles published in peer-rev
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis
Platforms & Society, volume 2 (2025), 16 pp.
"Hopes that the growth of platform work in Africa will provide new opportunities for women’s employment have not yet been matched by empirical research. Based on a five-country survey of workers on 18 platforms across four sectors (ride-hailing, delivery, professional, microtasks), the research re
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La inteligencia artificial: Una mirada pastoral desde América Latina y el Caribe
Bogotá: Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y Caribeño (CELAM) (2025), 97 pp.
"El trabajo incluye desde nociones generales sobre Inteligencia Artificial hasta propuestas prácticas a los obispos del continente. El sumario incluye antecedentes históricos y evolución de la IA, aspectos éticos, antropológicos y teológicos, recoge el magisterio de la Iglesia, asume el desaf
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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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De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics
Berlin: De Gruyter (2024), xix, 566 pp.
"The handbook presents key contributions from scholars worldwide, providing a comprehensive exploration of current trends in media industries from diverse perspectives. Within the framework of understanding contemporary and future trajectories in media markets and industries, the volume delves into
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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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Communications, media and internet concentration in India 2019-2021
Deep Insights
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), iii, 88 pp.
"During the survey period of 2019-2021, the Indian media economy grew by 21% to reach gross revenues of $US 66.52bn (excluding publishing). The overall pattern of growth was unevenly distributed across four component divisions: telecoms and internet infrastructure with growth of 23% (2021 revenues o
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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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Communications, media and internet concentration in Mexico, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 55 pp.
"The analysis in this report relies on a detailed and comprehensive analysis across 22 distinct markets within three broad sets of industries: (a) Telecommunications and internet access, (b) Online and traditional media services, and (c) Core internet sectors. Through this structured approach, the r
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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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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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Fairwork Chile Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Santiago; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 35 pp.
Fairwork India Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Bangalore; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 39 pp.
"1. Only bigbasket and Urban Company were awarded the first point under Fair Pay for instituting a minimum wage policy that guaranteed all their workers earn at least the hourly local minimum wage after factoring in work-related costs. No platform earned the second point under Fair Pay, which requir
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