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Blake Hallinan

@blakeplease.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.
collage image with Uncle Sam in front of a collection of vtubers with the text “I want you for a PhD fellowship on vtubers”
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#OutNow in #iCS With the rise of social media, mothers around the world share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. The authors analyzed 100 videos and 1,000 associated comments. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Broadcasting the good mom: a cross-national analysis of mom vloggers and their audiences
With the rise of social media, mothers around the world publicly share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. While scholars have docu...
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Niche #academicpublishing observation but I just noticed IJoC now includes DOIs with their articles, starting in 2026 😮 my zotero folder and I are very happy about this development but I’m curious where the decision/funding came from… anyone know? #commsky
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Avishai Green @avishaigreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we talk about 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜? A new @icsjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How to do things with a keyword: a cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and functions of ‘values’ on Twitter
While people regularly employ the term values in mundane interactions and political debates on social media, little is known about its function in public communication. Approaching values as a keyw...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I had a great time talking the latest tech policy news with Ben, including some deep cuts on meta political ads during Hungary’s parliamentary election and a new report on debanking from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so... #AIAct #AIGovernance #Values
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
💡Check out the new article “Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews“ 🤳🏽 led by Blake Hallinan with the contribution of PGMT Postdoc Rebecca Scharlach. Out now #openaccess. Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
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Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews
Abstract. Social media facilitates new forms of cultural production from professionalized and commercialized users known as creators. While some have posit
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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📚 Articles in 2025 Can middleware fix platform governance? Drs. Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social, Rothenstein @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social & John examine Bluesky to show why market-based moderation remains as much a cultural struggle as a policy solution⚖️ 👉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Client Challenge
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www: aoir.org/aoir2026/ This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR. Please share with your networks. 🌮
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Emilija Jokubauskaitė @emilijajok.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
a christmas miracle! or perhaps a present from me to the world: my first solo-author article is published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stabilizing the stream: The role of traffic and studio partners in webcam sex platform competition - Emilija Jokubauskaitė, 2025
Webcam sex platforms, operating at the margins of the digital economy, face instability on both sides of their multisided markets due to the flexibility of plat...
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Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Nice update on our 2024 paper, Shaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware, with focus on the current success & issues with @bsky.app and @atprotocol.dev. 🧵 cc: @lehogg.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @frankfukuyama.bsky.social @daphnek.bsky.social
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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 10/12/2025
How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms? (spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias) My 💥new article💥 out today in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal full article: doi.org/10.1080/2326...
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Stine Lomborg @stinelomborg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Interested in joining a vibrant hub for research on human and societal consequences of digital communication and datafication? We're hiring a new TT assistant professor at Center for Tracking & Society in Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track...
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Tenure-track assistant professorship in empirical communication research
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
What's that? Time to promote research about #bluesky on bluesky? Happy to share a new paper from @omerrothenstein.bsky.social @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social & I: "Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance" doi.org/10.1007/s443...
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Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance - Communication and Change
Social media faces a crisis of trust over the management of speech, with critics simultaneously arguing platforms remove too much and too little. Middleware, a recent market-oriented proposal for plat...
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Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
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PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms
PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem project funded by the ERC Advanced Grant.
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Vitaly Kazakov @vitalykaz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My one-two punch on “#sportswashing”: Two (!) new journal articles are now out, in which I critique the concept and call for more attention to the role played by media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In the wake of news about Project B, a new women’s basketball league with a range of funders from around the globe, I want to highlight this recent paper exploring (and critiquing) the concept of “sportswashing”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Sportswashing’ as mediated deceit: applying a critical disinformation model to address political (mis)communication through sports
The article highlights the need to decouple discussions about political (mis)communication and abuses of sport from the narrow conceptual preoccupation of ‘sportswashing’ with authoritarian decepti...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet
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Danielle Flonk @danielleflonk.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy to announce a new publication! Ever wondered how and why digital platforms change over time? In this open access paper in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social, Kevin Garvey and I present three mechanisms by which platforms change. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
📚 Book Announcement Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I’m hiring for a 2.5 year postdoc position in digital methods and the creator economy, details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG525/p...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy at Aarhus University
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 29/10/2025
bluesky mentioned in academic paper about puppygirls
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Honored to serve as the vice chair of Media Industry Studies 🫡
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How about that impact, @tomdivon.bsky.social ! Congrats 👏👏
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
💡 New publication alert! “On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now. 📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hey #AoIR2025 catch me today at 4 pm with a wonderful group of scholars - Taylor Annabell, Diyi Liu, Thales Lelo and Tom Divon - for a roundtable on the future of tech governance research. This is going to be an open discussion, so please join and share your thoughts!
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This article has some of the best screenshots I’ve seen in social media research. Really captures the kind of innovation Twitch excels at 🔥🌶️💸
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Where are you in a “paralocal” relationship with? Looking at First Amendment auditors (aka people that film the police and post it to social media), @reynoldscj.bsky.social looks at how media practices can foster these relationships and transform civic engagement.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
BIG NEWS (!!) I’ve received an ERC starting grant for my project PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society. Please prepare to hear me talking about how platforms, creators, 💸, organizing, and power for the next five years. Read more here: www.blakehallinan.com/pay4play
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Two weeks left to submit to PlatGovNet 2025! We've got a good number of submissions already, make sure to share your extended abstract (800-1000 words) by September if you'd like to join us for this free online conference on platform governance December 1-2.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Setting up a new cloud file storage system has me getting intimate with my neglected files. I’ve discovered I have over 100 iterations of my CV saved. Do I need these? Should I purge them? What do other people’s records look like 🤔
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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📘 New Publication: “Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards” - lead by @blakeplease.bsky.social, and in collaboration with our lab member @rscarlets.bsky.social. 👉 Read the full article #openaccess in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025
Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
💥new paper out in New Media & Society💥 In this collaborative paper, led by @blakeplease.bsky.social, we compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from the Trust and Safety Professional Association to identify policy priorities and exclusions. Check out Blake’s thread for the deets👇
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025
Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hey #ica25! You'll find me presenting Sunday at noon in the pre-constituted CLP panel "Platform Governance and the Tensions Between Public and Private Values" organized by @martinriedl.bsky.social & Samantha Bradshaw, w/ @robyncaplan.bsky.social & Philip Napoli. Come join us!
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Accidentally found a data center wandering around for #ICA25 saw the beautiful exterior lights on a seeming empty building and had to know more
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm off to Colorado this week for the #DebatingCreatorCulture preconference and the International Communication Association's annual conference #ICA25 with four co-authored projects on the docket: 1) Legal Lore, 2) Policy Specifications, 3) Parasocial Media, and 4) Aspirational Platform Governance 👇
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Governing the Digital Society
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...
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CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 We’re heading to Boulder! 🚨 The Content Creator Scholars Network is thrilled to host our ICA 2025 pre-conference: Debating Creator Culture, in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
When did streaming/camming sites launch direct donations? I've been trying to put together a timeline, and these are the early examples I've found documents for: 2005 - 1958 (CN) 2007 - AfreecaTV (KR) 2009 - Video Secrets/Flirt4Free, YY (CN) 2011 - Gamma Entertainment, YouNow What am I missing?
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New paper out: Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised multi-level marketing scheme in which Jacob Ørmen, Andreas Gregersen,Anne Thorhauge, and Linea Petersen write about how platformized MLMs generate cycles of precarity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised multi-level marketing scheme - Jacob Ørmen, Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Linea Munk Petersen, 2025
This article examines the emergence of platformised multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes as a significant, yet understudied, phenomenon in the ongoing transforma...
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Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work. Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In Boston (for the first time) to present some new research with Nik John and @omerrothenstein.bsky.social on Bluesky, #contentmoderation, and the cultural take up of community tools for curation and moderation (also for the first time) ✨
Title slide for presentation on the marketplace of algorithms: the promise and practice of middle-level platform governance
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
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Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025
This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...
Infographic promoting the key concept from the paper. Text reads: "Aspirational platform governance: Public expression of the desire to influence content moderation policies and practices without established channels or guarantees of success. (Hallinan, Reynolds, Kuperberg, & Rothenstein 2025)" along with a QR code that contains a link to the article: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/aspirational-platform-governance
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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm excited to see this special issue out in the wild! Writing about GARM while it was being sued out of existence was a challenge, but I'm happy that I could work with the great editors and reviewers at IPR to make it happen.
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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
[New special issue] #Contentmoderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms! As content regulation becomes increasingly politicised, this issue edited by Anne Bellon & Romain Badouard explores the growing role of #civilsociety in #platformgovernance. ⅕ Read: doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.2005
Cover image for a special issue on content moderation on digital platforms, featuring a coastal landscape and the title: ‘Content moderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms’Quote from A. Bellon & R. Badouard in a special issue on content moderation: ‘Content moderation encompasses a great diversity of actors. Users, NGOs, activists, journalists, advertisers, experts, designers and researchers are becoming more and more involved in moderation-related activities, apart from, in partnership with, or against public authorities and firms.’ The image features a coastal landscape background
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