Platform studies

J Burgess - Creator culture: An introduction to global social media …, 2021 - degruyter.com
From the 2010s on, online creators and communities have become increasingly dependent
on a relatively small number of digital media platforms (or, in Chinese, ping tai), which are in …

Playing with machines: Using machine learning to understand automated copyright enforcement at scale

JE Gray, NP Suzor - Big Data & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents the results of methodological experimentation that utilises machine
learning to investigate automated copyright enforcement on YouTube. Using a dataset of …

'The non-interference principle': Debating online platforms' treatment of editorial content in the European Union's Digital Services Act

C Papaevangelou - European Journal of Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The article discusses the negotiations surrounding the treatment of journalistic content in
relation to content regulation in the context of the European Union's Digital Services Act …

The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach

H Smith, W Cipolli - Policy & Internet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research indicates that adolescents who are vulnerable to self‐harm are likely to access
social media specifically related to self‐harm, which often contains health myths and fails to …

Instagram revisited

L Laestadius, A Witt - SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research …, 2022 - torrossa.com
The photo, video, and message sharing application ('app') Instagram is one of the most
popular visual social media platforms in the world (Instagram, 2019). As of June 2018 …

The case of a Facebook content moderation debacle in Greece

C Papaevangelou, N Smyrnaios - … and digital content in emerging media …, 2022 - Springer
This chapter first discusses how Facebook's content moderation process works, along with
Facebook's policies on Dangerous Individuals and Organizations, which were allegedly …

To Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Truth Seeking and Truth Telling in Law (and Other Arenas)

SP Shapiro - Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the fate of truth and falsehood outside of the courtroom, largely—but not
exclusively—in the United States. Describing opportunities and techniques to mislead or …

Who watches the Birdwatchers? Sociotechnical vulnerabilities in Twitter's content contextualisation

G Benjamin - International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in …, 2021 - Springer
At the start of 2021, Twitter launched a closed US pilot of Birdwatch, seeking to promote
credible information online by giving users the opportunity to add context to misleading …

The political economy of online platform governance

C Papaevangelou - 2023 - theses.hal.science
The thesis revolves around the political economy of online platform governance, aiming to
reconceptualise how we think about the internet and platforms. The thesis focuses on …

[PDF][PDF] Modulating moderation: A genealogy of objectionable content on Twitter

E de Keulenaar, JC Magalhães, B Ganesh - scholar.archive.org
As public perception about social media platforms has worsened, these corporations have
tried to regain legitimacy by profoundly revamping their content moderation systems. The …