Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem

Dijck, José van; Winkel, Tim de; Schäfer, Mirko Tobias

doi:10.1177/14614448211045662

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“…Generally, according to experts, the state should legislate the responsibility of platforms for content, the risks of individuals and society from exploiting new digital technologies and ensure the use of digital technologies in the public interest. Such assessments are quite consistent with the concern of several scientists about the growing dependence of citizens' communication on digital monopolies [van Dijck, Winkel, Schäfer 2021].…”

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Contemporary State in the Context of Digital Technological Transformations: Political Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges

Володенков

Fedorchenko

Artamonova

2022

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Politol.

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Modern state faces the need to adapt to the changing external environment, which is characterized by intensive digital technological transformations. Thus, it is important to determine how contemporary state and its power institutions adapt to digital technological transformations and identify the key risks, threats, and challenges associated with such adaptation. To do so, the authors of the article conducted a corresponding international expert study, which allowed them to determine the degree of digital technological transformations’ influence on the functioning of traditional states and their power institutions. Also, based on the integration of expert assessments, the authors identified the essential characteristics of digital technological transformations’ effect on contemporary institutions of state power. The study results concluded that the digitalization of contemporary states and their adaptation to current technological transformations is a complex and largely ambiguous set of processes. These include both political opportunities and the associated risks, threats, and challenges for both the state and its institutions, as well as directly for the civil society, which is rapidly increasing its complexity and diversity through intensive digitalization. This brings to a wide range of scenarios for forming state and political management models in the context of a rapidly emerging digital technological reality of a new type. The article proves that the adaptation of the traditional state as a management system to the technologically more complex environment is necessary to ensure the effective viability of both the state itself and its institutions.

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Contemporary State in the Context of Digital Technological Transformations: Political Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges

Володенков

Fedorchenko

Artamonova

2022

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Politol.

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“…It describes digital offerings that are based on digital networking technologies and enable information access and sharing to establish or maintain social relationships (Taddicken and Schmidt, 2017). Due to the increasing variety of social media platforms, the traditional large platforms, such as Facebook or YouTube, are often referred to as ‘mainstream platforms' in contrast to ‘fringe platforms' (e.g., Van Dijck et al, 2021).…”

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Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram

Schulze

Hohner

Greipl

et al. 2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Societal crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, produce societal instability and create a fertile ground for radicalization. Extremists exploit such crises by distributing disinformation to amplify uncertainty and distrust among the public. Based on these developments, this study presents a longitudinal analysis of far-right communication on fringe platforms, demonstrating radicalization dynamics. Public Telegram communication of three movements active in Germany (QAnon, Identitarian Movement, Querdenken) was analyzed through a quantitative content analysis of 4500 messages posted to nine channels between March 2020 and February 2021. We study the movements' discourse using several indicators of radicalization dynamics. The increasing prevalence of conspiracy narratives, anti-elitism, political activism, and support for violence indicate radicalization dynamics in these movements’ online communication. However, these dynamics varied within the movements. It can be concluded that, when studying radicalization dynamics online, it is crucial to not just focus on one single indicator, but consider longitudinal changes across several indicators, ideally comparing different movements.

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“…As per Grimmelmann's taxonomy of online moderation, banning is one of the four key techniques that moderators can adopt to avoid disruptions caused by malicious actors [12,19]. Several studies have focused on understanding the impact of bans and deplatforming -be it at an individual level [8,18], communitylevel (mass removal of xenophobic communities) [7,20,30,31,41], or platform level (banning of right-wing platforms like Parler from Google's app store) [2,3]. These studies find that while bans and deplatforming force a large fraction of users to abandon the platform, a few users and communities evade the ban and continue malicious activities that cause sustained issues relating to abuse, propaganda, and sometimes even leading to real-life acts of violence.…”

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Characterizing, Detecting, and Predicting Online Ban Evasion

Niverthi,

Verma,

Kumar

2022

Preprint

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Moderators and automated methods enforce bans on malicious users who engage in disruptive behavior. However, malicious users can easily create a new account to evade such bans. Previous research has focused on other forms of online deception, like the simultaneous operation of multiple accounts by the same entities (sockpuppetry), impersonation of other individuals, and studying the effects of de-platforming individuals and communities. Here we conduct the first data-driven study of ban evasion, i.e., the act of circumventing bans on an online platform, leading to temporally disjoint operation of accounts by the same user.We curate a novel dataset of 8, 551 ban evasion pairs (parent, child) identified on Wikipedia and contrast their behavior with benign users and non-evading malicious users. We find that evasion child accounts demonstrate similarities with respect to their banned parent accounts on several behavioral axes -from similarity in usernames and edited pages to similarity in content added to the platform and its psycholinguistic attributes. We reveal key behavioral attributes of accounts that are likely to evade bans. Based on the insights from the analyses, we train logistic regression classifiers to detect and predict ban evasion at three different points in the ban evasion lifecycle. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods in predicting future evaders (𝐴𝑈𝐶 = 0.78), early detection of ban evasion (𝐴𝑈 𝐶 = 0.85), and matching child accounts with parent accounts (𝑀𝑅𝑅 = 0.97). Our work can aid moderators by reducing their workload and identifying evasion pairs faster and more efficiently than current manual and heuristic-based approaches. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Web log analysis; Data mining; • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; • Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy.

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Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem

Cited by 45 publications

References 38 publications

Contemporary State in the Context of Digital Technological Transformations: Political Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges

Contemporary State in the Context of Digital Technological Transformations: Political Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges

Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram

Characterizing, Detecting, and Predicting Online Ban Evasion

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