Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies

R Scharlach, B Hallinan, L Shifman - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As sites where social media corporations profess their commitment to principles like
community and free speech, policy documents function as boundary objects that navigate …

Humour as an online safety issue: Exploring solutions to help platforms better address this form of expression

A Matamoros Fernandez, L Bartolo… - Internet Policy …, 2023 - eprints.qut.edu.au
This paper makes a case for addressing humour as an online safety issue so that social
media platforms can include it in their risk assessments and harm mitigation strategies. We …

Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism

M Wade, SA Baker, MJ Walsh - Policy & Internet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crowdfunding platforms remain understudied as conduits for ideological struggle. While
other social media platforms may enable the expression of hateful and harmful ideas …

How negative media coverage impacts platform governance: evidence from facebook, twitter, and youtube

N Marchal, E Hoes, KJ Klüser, F Hamborg… - Political …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Social media companies wield considerable power over what people can say and do online,
with consequences for freedom of expression and participation in digital culture. Yet we still …

European Union's regulating of social media: A discourse analysis of the digital services act

G Schlag - Politics and Governance, 2023 - cogitatiopress.com
Traditional conceptions of democratic publics are changing due to the rise of social media
as a global communication tool. While social media brings people together globally and …

Shifting platform values in community guidelines: Examining the evolution of TikTok's governance frameworks

NK Chan, CC Su, A Shore - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media can establish governance frameworks for their users through public-facing
documents and policies. Such governance frameworks are value-laden and embody …

Private attributes: The meanings and mechanisms of “privacy-preserving” adtech

L McGuigan, I Sivan-Sevilla, P Parham… - new media & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study analyzes the meanings and technical mechanisms of privacy that leading
advertising technology (adtech) companies are deploying under the banner of “privacy …

The value affordances of social media engagement features

R Scharlach, B Hallinan - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Social media engagement is ubiquitous but contested, simultaneously framed as an
everyday form of support and an urgent societal risk. To make sense of these competing …

[HTML][HTML] Why don't faculty members report incidents of online abuse and what can be done about it?

J Hodson, V O'Meara, J Owen, G Veletsianos… - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
The mobilization of academic research via online platforms presents a troubling paradox.
Digital-first publications offer the opportunity for scholars to reach a wider audience, yet this …

Stances on hate speech: Population opinions and attitudes

MD Cáceres-Zapatero, G Brí… - Profesional de …, 2023 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
This research aims to know the opinions and attitudes of the Spanish population towards
hate speech through a survey of 1,022 persons of both sexes and over 16 years of age. The …