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Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in an Era of Generative AI
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 29 pp.
"This report presents the results of deep dive experiments into the risks associated to the design, deployment and use of generative AI to facilitate gender-based violence. It assesses the possible impact posed by generative AI that enables the creation of more realistic ‘synthetic’ media, ‘ha
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Fairwork Uganda Ratings 2023: A Need for Pro-Worker Change
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 33 pp.
"In 2023, Fairwork conducted the first year of research in Uganda among twelve selected digital platforms. The selected platforms are in the sectors of ride hailing and food delivery. The research and rating of platforms was done as per the five Fairwork principles." (Executive Summary)
Fairwork Kenya Ratings 2023: The Promise and Peril of Platform Work in the Kenyan Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
A systematic literature review of the motivations to share fake news on social media platforms and how to fight them
New Media & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 1127-1150
"This review aims (a) to investigate the motivations to share fake news on Social Media Platforms (SMPs) according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT); (b) to identify the solutions to fight these motivations and the agents in charge of implementing them; and (c) the user’s role in this process
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Fairwork Ecuador Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in Unsafe Contexts
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Peru Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 38 pp.
Plataformização e rádio expandido: As redes coletivas de podcasts no contexto das plataformas
Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 54-66
"O artigo analisa os impactos da plataformização na criação de redes de divulgação coletiva de podcasts no Brasil, formadas por grupos tradicionalmente subalternizados como mulheres, comunidade LGBTQIAP+, população negra, entre outros. A partir de entrevistas, os dados demonstram que a luta
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Digital Spaces, Rights and Responsibilities: Towards a Duty of Care Model in Southern Africa
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 14 pp.
"In this article, the intersection between digital spaces, rights, and responsibilities in an interconnected platformising world is highlighted. Besides unpacking structural harms and unfreedoms accompanying this platformisation, it also proposes a duty of care model rooted in the African philosophy
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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.
Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 1: Why Lies and Hatred Proliferate on Digital Platforms
Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 21 pp.
"Online and platform content that may cause harm through the breach of human rights is sufficiently widespread to have raised concerns about the potentially severe implications for the future of trust, safety, democracy and sustainable development. A certain amount of this content is curbed by the d
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 167 pp.
"In many countries, especially outside Europe and the United States, we find a significant further decline in the use of Facebook for news and a growing reliance on a range of alternatives including private messaging apps and video networks. Facebook news consumption is down 4 percentage points, acr
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Fairwork Tanzania Ratings 2023: Towards Improving Platform Work in Tanzania
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2022/23: Platform Workers Amidst Egypt's Economic Crisis
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 51 pp.
“Shadowbanning is not a thing”: Black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1226-1243
"Efforts to govern algorithms have centerd the ‘black box problem,’or the opacity of algorithms resulting from corporate secrecy and technical complexity. In this article, I conceptualize a related and equally fundamental challenge for governance efforts: black box gaslighting. Black box gasligh
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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.
"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global
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Researching the Evolving Online Ecosystem: Telegram, Discord and Odysee
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
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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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