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Anticipatory News Infrastructures: Seeing Journalism’s Expectations of Future Publics in Its Sociotechnical Systems
The news media expects certain types of news and certain types of public life; these expectations can affect outcomes, if people cannot imagine alternatives to the futures described by the press.
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Mike Ananny, Megan Finn |
2020 |
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Making Up Political People: How Social Media Create the Ideals, Definitions, and Probabilities of Political Speech
Facebook’s fact checking service assumes that the public is rational and seeks the truth, but people are more influenced by emotion. Some are concerned that false news is not banned, but merely ranked lower.
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Mike Ananny |
2020 |
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European Digital Sovereignty”: Successfully Navigating Between the “Brussels Effect” and Europe’s Quest for Strategic Autonomy
“European digital sovereignty” encompasses regulatory and strategic concerns. The European Union (EU) is the most powerful global actor in digital regulation, though its power is not unlimited.
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Theodore Christakis |
2020 |
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The Internet as a Speech Conversion Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform Efforts
Policymakers are now revisiting the responsibility of online platforms for harmful content. Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), online platforms are immune from liability for content posted by users.
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Danielle Citron, Mary Anne Franks |
2020 |
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California Defends Its Net Neutrality Law
Net neutrality law limits Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) control of Internet uses and users. Federal net neutrality rules were repealed, but states should be able to enact their own net neutrality rules.
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Barbara van Schewick |
2020 |
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“It’s a scavenger hunt”: Usability of Websites’ Opt-Out and Data Deletion Choices
Privacy laws require websites to offer consumers options such as the choice to opt out of advertising or to delete account data. On many sites, these options are poorly labelled and hard to find.
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Alessandro Acquisti, Florian Schaub, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Hana Habib, Jiamin Wang, Norman Sadeh, Sarah Pearman, Yixin Zou |
2020 |
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Informing the Design of a Personalized Privacy Assistant for the Internet of Things
Personalized Privacy Assistant (PPAs) will help users manage Internet of Things (IoT) device data collection. The best PPAs will learn from users and offer suggestions from unbiased sources.
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Alessandro Acquisti, Jessica Colnago, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Megan Ung, Norman Sadeh, Sarah Pearman, Tharangini Palanivel, Yuanyuan Feng |
2020 |
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Digital Platforms and Antitrust
Digital platforms create value for users and make markets more efficient. But some platforms gain excessive market power. Antitrust agencies and regulators must adopt new methods to preserve the benefits of platforms but reduce harm.
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Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Marshall Van Alstyne |
2020 |
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Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization
Political polarization in several countries, including the United States, is increasing. Key factors include increasing polarization among elite political party members and the spread of cable news services.
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Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse Shapiro, Levi Boxell |
2020 |
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Cross-Platform Disinformation Campaigns: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Disinformation campaigns use misleading information to discredit a political adversary. Opponents of a humanitarian group operating in Syria use Twitter and YouTube to discredit the group.
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Kate Starbird, Tom Wilson |
2020 |