AoIR2016: Censorship online, and the challenges of studying what’s no longer there

Tarleton Gillespie (Microsoft Research), Jillian York (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Sarah Myers West (University of Southern California), José van Dijck (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Sarah Roberts (UCLA). Tarleton Gillespie opened, noting that most users never run into content moderation rules: they never confront what gets deleted or suspended, particularly not the details. Other … Continue reading AoIR2016: Censorship online, and the challenges of studying what’s no longer there →

Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, Day 1

The first day of CLSI 2014 started with Ron Diebert talking about the state of the field and the attempt currently under way to build an inter-disciplinary research community around monitoring Internet openness and rights. Fenwick McKelvey has also put up a reading list of papers mentioned at CLSI 2014.The opening panel looked at Network Measurement and … Continue reading Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, Day 1 →

#activism2action opening: perspectives on Internet governance

Yesterday's opening presentation and discussions focused on Internet governance: new challenges, different perspectives, and the lack of public awareness. This will, sadly, only be a very truncated version of the evening's discussions, as I had to cut down the many pages of notes into a more readable form. John Kampfner's keynote gave a broad overview … Continue reading #activism2action opening: perspectives on Internet governance →