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Meta changes its policy on sadistic imagery and violence as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalates
Meta · Community Guidelines · 17 October, 2023 *The following post may contain explicit language and content that could be distressing to some readers On October 17, Instagram and Facebook changed their Community Guidelines to specifically prohibit sadistic posts containing imagery of deceased babies. While before the corresponding policy section forbade the posting of “sadistic…
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New book by Dennis Redeker (PGMT) and colleagues: “The Content Governance Dilemma”
In July 2023, PGMT member Dr. Dennis Redeker – together with Dr. Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University), Dr. Nicola Palladino (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr. Kinfe Yilma (Addis Ababa University) – published a new book with Palgrave Macmillan. “The Content Governance Dilemma: Digital Constitutionalism, Social Media and the Search for a Global Standard” can be…
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Portrait of Lab Lead and PGMT work
The online magazine Up2Date of the University of Bremen has produced a nice portrait of the head of the PGMT Lab Christian Katzenbach and of the work at PGMT. The text focussed on our wok on discourses and regulation of AI, specifically on the projects Shaping AI and Imaginaries of AI. The article quotes Christian…
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New article by PGMT member Vanessa Richter on Influencers’ Instagram Imaginaries
PGMT member Vanessa Richter together with Zhen Ye has published an article on “Influencers’ Instagram Imaginaries as a global phenomenon: Negotiating precarious interdependencies on followers, the platform environment, and commercial expectations” in a Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies special issue on social media and platform work. The article deals with…
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PGMT member’s research supported by Data Science Center Seed Grant
The Data Science Center (DSC) at the University of Bremen supports research by PGMT Lab Dr. Dennis Redeker, which is planned at the intersection of data science and methods development for social scientific survey research. Large-scale cross-national surveys in the social sciences are normally run as face-to-face surveys which makes them extremely resource-intensive. Online surveys,…
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YouTube now permitting misinformation about US elections
YouTube ‧ Community Guidelines · June 2, 2023 YouTube changed its guidelines now allowing false claims regarding the 2020 and other past US presidential elections on their site. An updated YouTube elections misinformation policy implies that the platform will no longer remove false information about any past US presidential election, including claims about widespread fraud,…
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PGMT Submission to EU Consultation on Data Access for Research
As part of the implementation of the Digital Services Act, the EU Commission run a consultation on data access for research. We at PGMT made a joint submission in response to the Call for Evidence of the European Commission on the Delegated Regulation on data access provided for in the Digital Services Act (DSA), led by PGMT…
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Next up in Online Talk Series: Rebecca Scharlach on Social Media’s Governing Principles (June 13)
In two weeks, we are holding the second session of our online talk series: On June 13, 15:00 CEST, Rebecca Scharlach from Hebrew University will talk about about her empirical research on underlying principles in social media’s platform polices: “The promises and challenges of identifying values in social media platform policies“. This is an online…
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Behind the Scenes – ZeMKI and University of Groningen launch online talk series on platform governance
The Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, are launching an online talk and discussion series “Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”. This series kicks-off on Tuesday, May 9, 15:00 CEST with a talk by Tarleton…