Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)

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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…

1 June 2023
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…

27 May 2023
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…

28 April 2023