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Author
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Year
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Fixing Social Media's Grand Bargain
Social media firms like Facebook offer services for free in exchange for data from end users, using the data to sell advertising. This bargain encourages social media firms and advertisers to manipulate users.
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Jack M. Balkin |
2018 |
Acting the Part: Examining Information Operations Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse
Governments and non-state actors use inauthentic social media accounts to manipulate public opinion. In 2016, Russia's Internet Research Agency joined discussions of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
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Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, Leo G. Stewart |
2018 |
Age Discrimination by Platforms
In future, older workers will constitute a larger proportion of the population. Many digital platforms hinder the efforts of older people to find employment.
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Ifeoma Ajunwa |
2018 |
Media as Data Extraction: Towards a New Map of a Transformed Communications Field
Increasingly, media narratives are associated with consumer data collection. Media is becoming more closely linked to economic transactions and structures.
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Joseph Turow, Nick Couldry |
2018 |
Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear
Freedom of the press is defined mainly as journalistic freedom from constraints. Freedom of the press should be reconceived to include positive rights, such as the right of the public to hear.
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Mike Ananny |
2018 |
Auctions versus Posted Prices in Online Markets
When eBay first became popular, most sellers listed goods for sale in an auction format. Over time, posted prices began to predominate. Sellers were influenced by two factors, growing competition between sellers, and buyers’ preference for the convenience of posted prices.
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Jonathan Levin, Chiara Farronato, Liran Einav, Neel Sundaresan |
2018 |
The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Many online tasks are performed partly by artificial intelligence (AI) and partly by humans. Workers are hired on a temporary, “on demand” basis by firms such as Microsoft and Facebook to train algorithms or to assess questionable content.
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Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri |
2017 |
The Ten Most Important Section 230 Rulings
Under Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, websites are not legally responsible for content posted on the site by others. A few cases suggest that immunity does not extend to sites that encourage unlawful content.
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Eric Goldman |
2017 |
Understanding the Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016
The Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016 (CRFA) bars businesses from requiring their customers to agree not to post online reviews. These “anti-review” clauses prevented consumers from leaving feedback that would identify poorly run businesses.
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Eric Goldman |
2017 |
Scholarly Publishing and its Discontents: An Economist’s Perspective on Dealing with Market Power and Its Consequences
Scholarly journals charge libraries high prices for access to academic articles. Activists protest such restrictions on access to knowledge. Some hoped that the Internet would improve access to academic publishing, but this effect is limited.
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Joshua Gans |
2017 |