Platform Governance Scholars
Non-complete collection of researchers working on platform/tech/AI governance
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@rscarlets.bsky.social
@boesch.bsky.social
Phding on postdigital propaganda. Free newsletter http://understanding-tiktok.com 🦑 http://marcus-boesch.de (he/him)
@netzpolitik.bsky.social
Fighting for your digital rights. Co-Founder & Head of Curation @re-publica.com. Founder of netzpolitik.org. Now Digitalpolitik.de. Berlin.
@hill90210.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Bremen. Member of the “Digital Communication and Diversity of Information” Lab (Prof. Cornelius Puschmann)
@cbpuschmann.bsky.social
Professor of Media & Communication at ZeMKI, U of Bremen & affiliate Leibniz Institute for Media Research. Computational communication science.
@redeker.bsky.social
Scholar of International Relations and Digital Governance @Universität Bremen
@gorwa.ca
Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
@coltenmeisner.bsky.social
media professor, occasional curmudgeon. North Carolina, USA more: coltenmeisner.com
@jeah.bsky.social
Research on digitalisation with a focus on innovation, regulation and democracy, at WZB, HIIG, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Teaching at Freie Universität
@blakeplease.bsky.social
senior lecturer in communication at hebrew university | researching platforms + cultural production + participatory governance | they/them
@adiod.bsky.social
Research fellow @DAIR | Co-lead: https://data-workers.org/ Exploring digital labour, platform power, & AI ethics from a global majority lense. Creative writer| I drink whisky, and I know things
@silvertje.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies, @appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
@sberg.bsky.social
politics & technology I intellectual history I digitalization I democracy I ☕ I science (&) fiction @digipolicy.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
@pabloredux.bsky.social
Evolution: it's nothing personal. (Sorry if I ask too many questions... Share nicely!) I'm here because you're here. http://pabloredux.wordpress.com/ (Profile photo: a faint shadow of me cast across a weathered lichen-marked stone wall by the sea.)
@stineliv.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Studying children and young people in digital environments. Specific focus on intersections between children+youth, media, and disability.
@alexturvy.bsky.social
Internet culture researcher | PhD Candidate in Sociology | alexturvy.com
@ariadnamf.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University College Dublin Social media cultures, platform governance, online harms, and algorithmic systems. Opinions are my own. She/her
@mrafalow.bsky.social
sociologist @ youtube and usc. edtech, platformed creation, and youth culture 💻🎥📺 mattrafalow.org / matt.rafalow at gee-✉️
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
@martinriedl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media @ University of Tennessee, Knoxville | platform governance, digital journalism, dis/misinformation | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com
@citap.bsky.social
We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society. Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice. https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
@rebekahtromble.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, GWU | Union of Concerned Scientists’ 2024 Defender of Science | Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/ https://expertvoicestogether.org/ https://independenttechresearch.org/
@thewhynotlab.com
Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance, data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏 www.thewhynotlab.com
@torbatschow.bsky.social
Digital Politics, Public Sphere & Platform Regulation. Pushing policy @ https://agoradigital.de. T̵w̵e̵e̵t̵s̵ Posts by me & my team (tbd)
@aleeshajoy.bsky.social
Research Fellow @digitalchildau l STS & digital media | a tech-sociologist generating better (digital) futures📱🌱| PhD @qutdmrc | they/them | https://linktr.ee/aleeshajoy
@kattiid.bsky.social
social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality. https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
@danijaradent.bsky.social
Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Media Change and Innovation Division at the Department of Media and Communication Research at the University of Zurich. Internet scholar focusing on diaspora and inequality.
@timhighfield.bsky.social
Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
@katemiltner.bsky.social
Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy. katemiltner.com
@striphas.bsky.social
Chair of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Co-editor, Cultural Studies | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
@michaelzimmer.bsky.social
Privacy & data ethics scholar. Professor in Computer Science and Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
@nickseaver.website
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
@dugstef.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
@emilbakke.bsky.social
PhD Student @ Strategic Organization Design (SOD) + Digital Democracy Centre (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social), Uni of Southern Denmark Computational Social Science / AI / Platforms / Information Ecosystems / News / Social Movements emilbakke.github.io
@taylorannabell.bsky.social
Postdoc for HUMANads, Utrecht University 🔍 influencer cultures & platform governance; everyday experiences of datafication; digital memory work by and through social media platforms 🥝 in 🇳🇱 via 🇬🇧
@palomaviot.bsky.social
YUFE Fellow at ZeMKI. University of Bremen. I look at how structural discrimination is embedded in digital technological systems. I read, write, scroll and link. I also make coffee .
@lutzid.bsky.social
Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
@alexmonea.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ George Mason U | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
@nathalievanraemdonck.com
Social media networks and social norms, PhD student at Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
@ckatzenbach.bsky.social
Professor for Media and Communication @ZeMKI.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social // Director @pgmt.bsky.social and MA Digital Media and Society // platform governance, (generative) AI, hype, regulation, tech discourses, norms
@anitafuentes.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ucm.es. "la Caixa" Doctoral Fellow. Media & knowledge production director at securityincontext.org
@pgmt.bsky.social
Lab directed by @ckatzenbach at @ZeMKI, Uni Bremen. Research and outreach on platform governance, AI, discourses, and regulation. Home of https://platformgovernancearchive.org URL: https://platform-governance.org
@reynoldscj.bsky.social
PhD Candidate. Researching user-generated content, free speech, and accountability movements. Still missing GeoCities.
@cgoanta.bsky.social
Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer
@tpoell.bsky.social
Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
University of Alabama social media professor. Author, “The Internet is for Cats” (Rutgers University Press). Thoughts mine. 👇🏻👇🏻 Subscribe to my free Substack newsletter on all things social media! https://bythewaysocial.substack.com
@bloggeronpole.bsky.social
💻 Innovation fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens📱Platform governance researcher 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
@grohmannrafael.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
@jeanburgess.bsky.social
Prof at QUT School of Comm & Digital Media Research Centre, Australia; Assoc Director ADM+S Centre. Researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐶🌄🍽🎤
@internetmaggie.com
Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information | Advisory Board w. ECP/Pornhub | #1 Animorphs Fan www.internetmaggie.com
@klonick.bsky.social
Law professor & journalist researching internet law, online speech governance, AI. Dallying in consumer protection. For sporadic writings on these things see: https://klonick.substack.com/ For more info and full bio see: www.kateklonick.com
@daphnek.bsky.social
Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford CPC. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. I've done this stuff for a long time and am getting kind of cranky about it.
@shannimcg.bsky.social
Professor at UNC. Principal investigator at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, data, news. BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social
🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City, University of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@rscarlets.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher PGMT Lab @Uni bremen | CITAP affiliate | Critical Platform Studies | European/German/feminist | first gen | she/her