PGMT members proudly represented ZeMKI at #PlatGovNet2025! With 3 panel chairs and 3 presentations across topics from AI governance to content moderation and social XR, our researchers helped shape vibrant discussions on the future of platform governance. Thanks to all who joined!

Dennis Redeker @redeker.bsky.social von der @unibremen.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social stellt das Lehrprojekt „Digital Constitutionalism and the UN Global Digital Compact" vor: 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/digital... #DVPWBlog #Lehrpreis

#swing2025: DAY 2 RECAP🌐 @jupohle.bsky.social, #Multistakeholder Governance @yves-raymond.bsky.social, #DigitalDiplomacy @redeker.bsky.social, Digital #Cooperation and the #UN GDC Edoardo Celeste & Chiara Spinello, #DigitalConstitutionalism Marianne Franklin, #IG and #HumanRights

This is a really important report about the challenges faced by people doing #independent #tech #research: funding, personal security and data access feature high up on the list; by @thecoalition.bsky.social Great illustrations and it's full of examples 🎉 independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...

3/ Edoardo’s works include books like Digital Constitutionalism: The Role of Internet Bills of Rights (2022) & The Content Governance Dilemma (2023), co-authored by @nicolapalladino.bsky.social , @redeker.bsky.social and @kinfe.bsky.social. Watch his breakdown of them here: youtu.be/W8txBi9NnBg?...

📚 #DCNReads | (1/2) How can #ContentModeration be both rights-respecting and effective in transnational digital spaces? A new article by @nicolapalladino.bsky.social, @redeker.bsky.social & Celeste looks at the role of #CivilSociety in shaping platform governance.

At #GIGARTS2025, the panel "Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives on Digital Sovereignty" brought together members of the #DCN to examine how #DigitalSovereignty is shaped by – and responds to – colonial histories, geopolitical asymmetries & epistemic struggles. #DigitalConstitutionalism

Today #GIGARTS2025 kicked off with a panel on ‘Conceptualising #DigitalSovereignty chaired by @redeker.bsky.social.

Do you want all your Facebook and Instagram photos, posts and data to be used by Meta to train AI? If not, then *now* is the time to object. This article explains how. datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st...

Great! cyber.harvard.edu/story/2025-0...

[New paper] @nicolapalladino.bsky.social, @redeker.bsky.social and Edoardo Celeste I @dublincityuni.bsky.social highlight how civil society actors influence the implementation of clear governance frameworks for social media content. Read full article here: doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.1830

[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

#swing2025: DAY 2 RECAP🌐 @jupohle.bsky.social, #Multistakeholder Governance @yves-raymond.bsky.social, #DigitalDiplomacy @redeker.bsky.social, Digital #Cooperation and the #UN GDC Edoardo Celeste & Chiara Spinello, #DigitalConstitutionalism Marianne Franklin, #IG and #HumanRights

Excited to talk at #SWING in #Salerno today. Thank you @nicolapalladino.bsky.social and @msantaniello.bsky.social and everyone else involved! #digitalgovernance #UN #GlobalDigitalCompact

#Brussels welcoming #REMIT researchers with barbed wire, around ~50 #police horses being brought in and a #military helicopter hovering over Grand Place…

Just published (with Sebastian Kuhnke and Giorgi Davidian): blog post showing major decline in #trust in #Georgia's public institutions 🏛️ (courts, parliament, government), the Georgian church and academics, already right before the controversial October #elections. #research gip.ge/polls-show-m...

This is great!

Have you submitted your #ISAVirtual2025 proposal yet? You can do so through https://buff.ly/4hbhyo6 until March 15th!

✨call for papers✨ @aoir.bsky.social symposium "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance" with @pgmt.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Daria Dergacheva @redeker.bsky.social: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

In a video posted on Facebook and text posted to Threads, today Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the company's approach to content moderation.

Great analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social and what a sensible discussion in the comments.

Happy New Year 2025, BlueSky!

"Eine erste Analyse der Daten von mehr als 15.000 Befragten in 33 Ländern zeigt erstaunliche regionale Unterschiede beim durchschnittlichen Vertrauen in Staaten, Plattformen und andere bei der Regulierung von Online-Inhalten”, erklärt @redeker.bsky.social. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

This made my day! Do we need a right *not* to be forgotten? @zittrain.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Ganz frisch: Die Future Skills Charta zeigt Wege auf, Bildung zukunftsfähig und digitale Kompetenzen zugänglich zu machen. zukunftsmission-bildung.de/future-skill... #future_skills #stifterverband_wissenschaft

Very happy to present the #IGF2024 session organized by the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition. Fantastic speakers and moderator. intgovforum.org/en/content/i... You can also follow along on the YouTube channel of the IGF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn_O...

“Perspectives on Platform Governance” On 2 and 3 December, our lab hosted a workshop between four YUFE partner universities, researchers and educators to jointly design an Erasmus+ BIP related to the governance of digital technologies. Read more: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/workshop-...

“Platform Governance Survey: A Global Study of Public Attitudes Towards Content Moderation” erforscht unter der Leitung von @redeker.bsky.social die Nutzermeinungen zur Moderation von Online-Inhalten und zu den Verantwortlichkeiten der Akteure. zemki.uni-bremen.de/forschungspr...

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

This will be a great talk by @deeliu97.bsky.social!

Glad and excited that our conference on #Israel-#Palestine, the #Gaza War, and #Germany is happening tomorrow here at Uni Bremen. A big thank you to everybody involved! Link to program: nc.uni-bremen.de/index.php/s/... Please note: the event will be in person, and no more registrations are possible.

One of the most despair-inducing moments is talking to "non-scholars/activists" about AI. Their delight and amazement make me feel like Cassandra, warning of the labor exploitation and copyright theft propping up this shiny facade, only to be met with blank stares and or indifference

Having a modern morning — ie both on phones. Me: "Martial law in Korea!" Robin: "I don't see that anywhere" Me: "It's on Bluesky" This site has arrived

Sehr spannende Folge zu #Game-Förderung in DE, #X vs. #Bluesky und zur .io #TLD.

📢CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN NOW! The 9th GIG-ARTS Conference takes place in Salerno, on 26-27 May 2025. #GIGARTS25 Theme: "The Rise of Digital Sovereignty: Ambiguities and Challenges" Info & submissions: gig-arts.eu/salerno-2025/ 🗓️Deadline: 31 January 2025 #netgov #internetgovernance

Sehr traurige Lage in #Georgien. Ich teile noch einmal meine Perspektive auf eine spezielle außenpol. Herausforderung einer weiteren Legislaturperiode under der GD-Regierung , beim Georgian Institute of Politics bereits vor der Wahl erschienen: gip.ge/georgians-tr... (mit Sebastian Kuhnke)

I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?

Yesterday, we have hosted @claesdevreese.bsky.social at our Communicative AI lecture series to talk about AI and democracy @zemki.bsky.social. I particularly liked the nuance in talking about the role of AI in elections: changing voter behaviour is maybe not the best benchmark to test its impact 1/2

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Oh, oh… „Die Social-Media-Plattform Bluesky verstößt möglicherweise gegen die EU-Vorgaben für Internetdienste. Ein Sprecher der EU-Kommission sagte am 25. November 2024 in Brüssel, dass der Behörde bislang kein rechtlicher Vertreter des Dienstes in der EU bekannt sei.“ www.golem.de/news/x-alter...

Wow, yet another petro-monarchy hosting a UN conference!! Norway announced it will host the UN Internet Governance Forum 2025 🇳🇴🇺🇳 www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/n...

More than 20,000 people protesting the budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands #WOinActie

📣 Online Talk Series (13): Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social - "Studying Networked Platform Governance: A Multi-Perspective Approach” 🗓️November 26, 2024 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...

New working paper (with G. Davidian & S. Kuhnke) on the political conflict in Georgia (interesting graphs!). My interest in Georgian society and politics was sparked during the International Forum of Student Unions in Tbilisi in 2011. What an exceptional country. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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