News and Research articles on Digital platforms

Uploaders' perceptions of the German implementation of the EU copyright reform and their preferences for copyright regulation

Steliyana Doseva, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Hannah Schmid-Petri, University of Passau
Jan Schillmöller, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
Dirk Heckmann, Technical University of Munich
PUBLISHED ON: 14 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.4.1674

While the upload filters introduced by the EU copyright reform are being transposed into national law, this study examines how uploaders perceive copyright regulation and what further demands they have.

Disinformation

Hybrid institutions for disinformation governance: Between imaginative and imaginary

Martin Fertmann, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut
Bharath Ganesh, University of Groningen
Robert Gorwa, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Lisa-Maria Neudert, University of Oxford
PUBLISHED ON: 16 May 2022

This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the potential of new institutions for disinformation governance.

Disinformation

Truth, intention and harm: Conceptual challenges for disinformation-targeted governance

Naomi Appelman, University of Amsterdam
Stephan Dreyer, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut
Pranav Manjesh Bidare, Stanford University
Keno C. Potthast, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 16 May 2022

This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses conceptual challenges for disinformation governance.

Addressing gendered affordances of the platform economy: the case of UpWork

Elisabetta Stringhi, University of Milan
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1634

UpWork affordances are gendered affordances, since male users are allowed different conducts compared to female freelancers, who experience cyberviolence. UpWork serves as a case study to investigate the relationship between digital platform functioning and gender inequality in a platform economy context.

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