Cross-platform emotions and audience engagement in social media political campaigning: Comparing candidates' Facebook and Instagram images in the 2020 US …

M Bossetta, R Schmøkel - Political Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides a cross-platform, longitudinal investigation of pictures depicting political
candidates posted to Facebook and Instagram over a 15-month period during the 2020 US …

Shifting platform values in community guidelines: Examining the evolution of TikTok's governance frameworks

NK Chan, CC Su, A Shore - new media & society, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media can establish governance frameworks for their users through public-facing
documents and policies. Such governance frameworks are value-laden and embody …

Platforms' governance: analyzing digital platforms' policy preferences

P Popiel, Y Sang - Global Perspectives, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Growing political distrust in digital platforms has galvanized policy debates about how to
best address issues associated with their market power and ad-run business models …

'I get suppressed:'pro-and anti-abortion activists' folk theories of platform governance and shadowbanning

MJ Riedl, ZC Martin, SC Woolley - Information, Communication & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In 2022, the US Supreme Court ended a federal right to abortion access in the
country. Ensuing disparate abortion legalization throughout the country made pertinent the …

[PDF][PDF] Digital platforms as policy actors

P Popiel - Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
From the Edward Snowden revelations and the Cambridge Analytica scandal to the spread
of political disinformation and hate speech amid surging right-wing populism, debates about …

Recommending instead of taking down: YouTube hyperpartisan content promotion amid the Brazilian general elections

RM Santini, D Salles, B Mattos - Policy & Internet, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
YouTube released a global commitment to reduce the spread of problematic content by
actively recommending “trusted” news sources on their platform but did not disclose the …

FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision

R Schmøkel, M Bossetta - Journal of Information Technology & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We present a methodological workflow using two open science tools that we developed. The
first, FBAdLibrian, collects images from the Facebook Ad Library. The second, Pykognition …

Seeing through opacity: The limitations of digital ad transparency in Brazil

RM Santini, D Salles, BM Martins, A Moreira… - The 2024 ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Digital platforms provide a deregulated and opaque environment suited to the maintenance
of their business model, in which ads are efficiently served by opaque algorithms to …

Civil rights audits as counterpublic strategy: articulating the responsibility and failure to care for marginalized communities in platform governance

J Baik, H Sridharan - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines civil society engagement with the 2016–2020 Airbnb and Facebook
civil rights audits as counterpublic strategies to address discriminatory harms on platforms …

[PDF][PDF] Democracy, electoral institutions, and digital platforms in Latin America

G Estrada - Latin America in Times of Turbulence. Presidentialism …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
This chapter presents a study into the role of digital platforms 1 in electoral campaigns and
their regulation (or rather the inadequacy of that regulation) by electoral institutions in Latin …