Social media
Alternative labels
Online social networks
Survey Report
The future of the First Amendment: 2018 survey of high school students and teachers
High school student support in the United States for First Amendment freedoms remains high, relative to historical levels of support in prior iterations of this survey.
Report
Content or context moderation?
This report provides fresh insights for those developing content moderation policy and regulation by illustrating how leading companies’ missions, business models, and team sizes influence their approaches. Along the way, the report teases out the emergent challenges and tensions these actors face in balancing context and consistency.
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Poisoning democracy: how Canada can address harmful speech online
The rise of harmful speech online is a threat to Canada’s democracy. This report outlines how governments and digital platform companies can better address hate and harassment, including the creation of a Moderation Standards Council.
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Data craft: the manipulation of social media metadata
“Data craft” is the term Acker coins for all those “practices that create, rely on, or even play with the proliferation of data on social media by engaging with new computational and algorithmic mechanisms of organization and classification.” This report elucidates what metadata is, how users create metadata, and how metadata is used by platforms.
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Mapping humanitarian action on Instagram
Humanitarianism is changing with the digital age and with new modes of networked communication and interaction. The research presented in this report offers new insights into the way people engage with humanitarian activities in their local contexts and everyday lives.