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Fairwork Jordan Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 43 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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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 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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Fairwork Tanzania Ratings 2023: Towards Improving Platform Work in Tanzania
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Kenya Ratings 2023: The Promise and Peril of Platform Work in the Kenyan Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Serbia Ratings 2023. Delivering Discontent: Dynamic Pricing and Worker Unrest
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 43 pp.
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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Fairwork Colombia Ratings 2023: The Mobilities of Gig Work in Colombia
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics
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
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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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Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2023: Still Pursuing Decent Work in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.
‘Push-and-pull’ for visibility: How do fans as users negotiate over algorithms with Chinese digital platforms?
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 321-339
"In the algorithmic era, both users and the platform battle for visibility. Chinese fans are savvy users who explore the hidden algorithms behind platform functions. With the collectively developed algorithmic imaginary, digital fandom communities negotiate with the platform over algorithms to optim
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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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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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Comparing Guidance for Tech Companies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute; JustPeace Labs (2022), 44 pp.
"This research report explores the strengths and weaknesses of four different frameworks tech companies, governments, and civil society can use to assess harms and benefits of new technologies. The four frameworks include human rights, conflict sensitivity, ethics, and human security. The research m
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In Search of Platform Cooperatives in South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 52 pp.
"This study argues for the diversification of South Africa's digital economy, as it builds a case for the support of platform co-operatives, which are worker-owned and managed social enterprises that contribute to the diversification, decentralisation and democratisation of the digital economy by fo
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.
"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr
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