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Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2022/23: Platform Workers Amidst Egypt's Economic Crisis

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 51 pp.

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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.

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Fairwork Albania Ratings 2023: Assessing Work in the Albanian Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.

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Fairwork Pakistan Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 58 pp.

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Fairwork Ecuador Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in Unsafe Contexts

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.

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Fairwork Tanzania Ratings 2023: Towards Improving Platform Work in Tanzania

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.

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Fairwork Vietnam Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.

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Fairwork Peru Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 38 pp.

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Fairwork Georgia Ratings 2023: Old Challenges and New Forms of Work in the Neoliberal Paradise

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.

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Fairwork Bangladesh Ratings 2023: Is it a Time for a Regulatory Framework?

Dhaka; Oxford: DataSense; iSocial; Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.

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Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2023: Still Pursuing Decent Work in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.

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Gender and Platform Work: Beyond Technosolutionism

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.

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Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics

Axel Volmar, Olga Moskatova, Jan Distelmeyer (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 372 pp.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Takin ... more

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Der Kampf um das Internet: Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon und Co. die Tech-Giganten herausfordern

Stefan Mey

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 ... more

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Researching the Evolving Online Ecosystem: Telegram, Discord and Odysee

Henry Tuck, Jakob Guhl, Julia Smirnova, Lea Gerster, Oliver Marsh

London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2023), 59 pp.

"Harmful actors use an ever-expanding range of digital spaces to spread harmful ideologies and undermine human rights and democracy online. Understanding their evolving ideas, online networks and activities is critical to the development of a more comprehensive evidence base to inform effective and ... more

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Kirsten Eddy, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 158 pp.

"Across markets, only around a fifth of respondents (22%) now say they prefer to start their news journeys with a website or app – that’s down 10 percentage points since 2018. Publishers in a few smaller Northern European markets have managed to buck this trend, but younger groups everywhere are ... showing a weaker connection with news brands’ own websites and apps than previous cohorts – preferring to access news via side-door routes such as social media, search, or mobile aggregators. • Facebook remains one of the most-used social networks overall, but its influence on journalism is declining as it shifts its focus away from news. It also faces new challenges from established networks such as YouTube and vibrant youth-focused networks such as TikTok. The Chinese-owned social network reaches 44% of 18–24s across markets and 20% for news. It is growing fastest in parts of Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. • When it comes to news, audiences say they pay more attention to celebrities, influencers, and social media personalities than journalists in networks like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. This contrasts sharply with Facebook and Twitter, where news media and journalists are still central to the conversation. • Much of the public is sceptical of the algorithms used to select what they see via search engines, social media, and other platforms. Less than a third (30%) say that having stories selected for me on the basis of previous consumption is a good way to get news, 6 percentage points lower than when we last asked the question in 2016. Despite this, on average, users still slightly prefer news selected this way to that chosen by editors or journalists (27%), suggesting that worries about algorithms are part of a wider concern about news and how it is selected. • Despite hopes that the internet could widen democratic debate, we find fewer people are now participating in online news than in the recent past. Aggregated across markets, only around a fifth (22%) are now active participators, with around half (47%) not participating in news at all. In the UK and United States, the proportion of active participators has fallen by more than 10 percentage points since 2016. Across countries we find that this group tends to be male, better educated, and more partisan in their political vie ws. • Trust in the news has fallen, across markets, by a further 2 percentage points in the last year, reversing in many countries the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, four in ten of our total sample (40%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the country with the highest levels of overall trust (69%), while Greece (19%) has the lowest after a year characterised by heated arguments about press freedom and the independence of the media." (Summary, page 10) more

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Towards Digital Platforms and Public Purpose

Harvard Kennedy School (2023), 35 pp.

"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 ... more

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Pluralism of News and Information in Curation and Indexing Algorithms: Policy Framework

Forum on Information & Democracy (2023), 92 pp.

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Comparing the Platformization of News Media Systems: A Cross-Country Analysis

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher

European Journal of Communication, volume 38, issue 5 (2023), pp. 484-499

"Platformization has been used to describe how platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, WhatsApp and TikTok have become increasingly important for how people communicate and access information, including news. But to what extent have news media systems in different countries become platformized? ... more

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Platform://Democracy: Perspectives on Platform Power, Public Values and the Potential of Social Media Councils

Matthias C. Kettemann, Wolfgang Schulz (eds.)

Hamburg: Leibniz Institut für Medienforschung (2023), 204 pp.