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Workshop on Empirical Approaches in Platform Governance Research

The theory and practice of how major platforms for user-generated content create rules and technologies that affect billions around the world — and how different governance stakeholders seek to affect those structures — has become the focus of significant public, scholarly, and policy attention. In the past two years, platform companies have become notably, if not incrementally, more transparent about how they govern content, leading to new opportunities — as well as challenges — for researchers looking to understand contemporary content moderation.

In this virtual half-day workshop organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), we are seeking to bring together an interdisciplinary set of researchers that produce empirical work on content moderation and platform governance across a variety of methodological traditions and approaches. We welcome contributions that make use of qualitative methods (e.g. interviews, ethnography, and policy analysis) as well as quantitative, experimental, and other research designs, across a wide variety of related topics (e.g. moderation and labour/outsourcing; government content regulation and policy; corporate rule-making and norm-setting) and issues (e.g. hate speech, disinformation, copyright).

Our goal will be to not only highlight the state of the research landscape as it exists at the moment, but to also to identify the major limitations facing researchers from different subfields, sparking collaborations that strive to move beyond those limitations and silos.

Due to the limitations imposed by the coronavirus crisis, the workshop will be designed for virtual participation via videoconferencing software. We welcome contributions from researchers located all around the world, and will work to accommodate multiple participant timezones.


Agenda

13:00 – 14:00  Opening Roundtable: Lessons Learned from Four Years of Platform Governance  Research
Main Input: Nic Suzor and Rosalie Gillett, Queensland University of Technology
Responses: Kate Klonick (St. John’s University), Jillian York (EFF)
14:00 – 17:00  Double Track Sessions on Empirical Platform Governance Research
17:00 – 18:00  Closing Roundtable: Reflections and Lessons Learned for Future Research

View the agenda as PDF-file also here.

Organizers

Robert Gorwa
Amélie Heldt
Christian Katzenbach
Clara Iglesias Keller
João Carlos Magalhães

Registration

Please register until June 15 through the form below to receive further information and all relevant links for the participation. 

Datum der Veranstaltung

17.06.2020 | 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm ical | gcal
 

Standort



Wird noch bekanntgegeben || to be announced

Kontakt

Robert Gorwa

Ehem. Fellow: Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Gesellschaft

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