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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Platform governance"”.
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Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach
… and 3 key problems: funding, misinformation, and platform governance; and how these could be addressed in future interventions.
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Digital sex markets: Entrepreneurialism and consumption within an uncertain regulatory framework
… and data-mining from a leading sex work platform. The key findings in this thesis reveal tensions in how the market is understood by customers and workers, and society more broadly. I argue that the market is legitimised yet the labour remains stigmatised. The first key finding points to …
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Play the Body Electric: Sex and Desire in Indie and Experimental Single-Player Sexual Videogames
… Finally, Chapter 6 explores how surveillance and platform governance become assembled as part of desiring machines. I argue that while single-player videogames may not be social, they are relational. Approaches rooted in assemblage theory require us to attend to the complex ways that single-player …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
… aesthetics, and digital ethnography of platformed activity on YouTube, Instagram and related social media. Methodological consistency is ensured through sustained attention to researcher positionality, access constraints and the ethics of studying precarious cultural scenes in exile. …
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Social Networking Sites as Intermediaries of Authoritarian State Propaganda: How Facebook and VK Disseminated Predominantly Kremlin-Friendly Political Content Before and During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
… audiences has primarily focused on US-based platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, the activities of Russia’s “troll farms”, as well as Russia’s foreign broadcasters, RT and Sputnik, and their audiences. By contrast, little research has examined the global reach of Russia’s state-aligned …
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AI Bias in Streaming Platform Recommendation Systems: Exploring the Impact on Corporate Reputation
… have transformed user engagement on digital platforms like Netflix and YouTube by delivering personalized experiences. However, biases in data, algorithms, and deployment environments raise significant social and professional concerns. This thesis uses Netflix and YouTube as case examples to …
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Abstraction and application: complementary perspectives on sociotechnical systems
… in this part examines the broad landscape of platforms and the technological features that shape their governance structures, and the following two chapters focus on a specific platform and feature: Reddit’s moderation queue, which enables community-specific human review of reported content. …