Tag: moderation

Gatekeepers of the mobile ecosystem: Understanding app store moderation

A new book chapter by Esther Weltevrede, Anne Helmond, Fernando van der Vlist, Stefanie Duguay and Michael Dieter in Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms, edited by Richard Rogers (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003693192-9). Gatekeepers of the mobile ecosystem: Understanding app store moderation The chapter examines how app stores moderate the mobile ecosystem and interact with external regulatory frameworks,… Read more Gatekeepers of the mobile ecosystem: Understanding app store moderation

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From healthy communities to toxic debates: Disqus’ changing ideas about comment moderation

A new open access article by Johannes Paßmann, Anne Helmond, and Robert Jansma in Internet Histories. We use data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to examine online commenting system Disqus’ shifting discourse about comment moderation and its increasing modes of platform interventionism. Crucially, we find that in the case of Disqus, the toxic is… Read more From healthy communities to toxic debates: Disqus’ changing ideas about comment moderation

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