Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)

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  • PGMT member’s research supported by Data Science Center Seed Grant

    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,…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Current research access programs to social media data: what they offer, what are the limitations?

    Review of YouTube, Meta, and TikTok researcher access. In lieu of the enforcement of the Digital Services Act in the EU, which would supposedly make data access easier for researchers, this blog post reviews current data access programs for the academics. What kind of data do platforms allow to access and by whom?  Read a…

  • 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…

  • 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…