Further Readings

The “New” New York Times: Free Speech Lawyering in the Age of Google and Twitter

Ammori, M. (2015)

Harvard Law Review 127(8)

From Noxious to Public? Tracing Ethical Dynamics of Social Media Platform Conversions

Ananny, M. (2015)

Social Media + Society 1(1): 1-3

Social network sites as networked publics: affordances, dynamics, and implications. In: Papacharissi Z (ed.) A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites.

boyd, d. (2010)

New York: Routledge, pp. 39–58

Bad Facts Make Bad Law: How Platform Censorship Has Failed So Far and How To Ensure that the Response to Neo-Nazis Doesn’t Make it Worse

Cohn, C. (2018)

Georgetown Law Technology Review

What is a flag for? Social media tools and the vocabulary of reporting

Crawford, K. and Gillespie, T. (2014)

New Media & Society, doi: 10.1177/1461444814543163

Networks of governance: users, platforms, and the challenges of networked media regulation

Crawford, K. and Lumby, C. (2013)

Social Media Governance

Flew, T. (2015)

Social Media + Society 1(1): 1-2

The dirty job of keeping Facebook clean

Gillespie, T. (2010)

Culture Digitally

The Internet is a Semicommons

Grimmelmann, J. (2010)

Fordham Law Review 78(6)

The Brave New World of Social Media Censorship

Heins, M. (2014)

Harvard Law Review 127(8)

Regulating Online Content Moderation

Langvardt, K. (2017)

Georgetown Law Journal

Surveillance of Communications: A Legitimization Crisis and the Need for Transparency

Losey, J. (2015)

International Journal of Communication

Consent of the Networked

MacKinnon, R. (2012)

Basic Books

Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries

MacKinnon, R., Hickock, E., Bar, A. and Lim, H. (2015)

UNESCO Series on Internet Freedom

State-Sponsored Trolling: How Governments Are Deploying Disinformation as Part of Broader Digital Harassment Campaigns

Nyst, C. and Monaco, N. (2018)

Institute for the Future

Content Moderation

Roberts, S. T. (2017)

Encyclopedia of Big Data.

Commercial content moderation: Digital laborers’ dirty work.

Roberts, S.T. (2016)

Noble, S.U. and Tynes, B. (Eds.), The intersectional internet: Race, sex, class and culture online (pp. 147-159).

Evaluating the legitimacy of platform governance: A review of research and a shared research agenda

Suzor, N., Van Geelen, T. and West, S.M. (2018)

International Communication Gazette

The Privatization of Human Rights: Illusions of Consent, Automation and Neutrality

Taylor, E. (2016)

Global Commission on Internet Governance

Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere

York, J. C. (2010)

OpenNet Initiative

Social Media and the Activist Toolkit: User Agreements, Corporate Interests, and the Information Infrastructure of Modern Social Movements

Youmans, W. L. and York, J. C. (2012)

Journal of Communication, 62: 315–329

Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated

boyd, d. (2010)

Apophenia

Facebook’s Report Abuse button has become a tool of global oppression

Brandom, R. (2014)

The Verge

The laborers who keep dick pics and beheadings out of your Facebook feed

Chen, A. (2014)

Wired

Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads

Chen, A. (2012)

Gawker

Internal Documents Show How Facebook Decides When a Poop Emoji Is Hate Speech

Cox, J. (2018)

Motherboard

Leaked Documents Show How Instagram Polices Content to Prevent ‘PR Fires’

Cox, J. (2018)

Motherboard

The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe

Dewey, C. (2016)

Washington Post, 28 January 2016

Censorship in the Social Media Age

Gourarie, C. (2016)

CJR

Technology set journalism free, now new platforms are in control

Ingram, M. (2014)

GigaOm

For better or worse, Twitter and Facebook are the guardians of free speech now

Ingram, M. (2014)

GigaOm

Rights like free speech don’t always extend online

Jesdanun, A. (2008)

USA Today

Inside Twitter’s Struggle Over What Gets Banned

Kang, C. and Conger, K. (2018)

The New York Times

Ruling Facebookistan

MacKinnon, R. (2012)

Foreign Policy

There Is No Magic Bullet For Moderating A Social Media Platform

Masnick, M. (2018)

TechDirt

The Facebook Files

Multiple Authors (2017)

The Guardian

Where’s the digital street?

Sauter, M. (2012)

Odd Letters, 2 May 2012

What Comes After The Social Media Empires

Smith, B. (2018)

Buzzfeed

Facebook: The Privatization of our Privates and Life in the Company Town

Tufekci, Z. (2010)

Technosociology

Google Buzz: The Corporatization of Public Commons

Tufekci, Z. (2010)

Technosociology

It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Era of Free Speech

Tufekci, Z. (2018)

Wired

Facebook, Network Externalities, Regulation

Tufekci, Z. (2010)

Technosociology

The Internet's "Nazi Purge" Shows Who Really Controls Our Online Speech

York, J. (2017)

Buzzfeed

The Myth of a Borderless Internet

York, J. C. (2015)

The Atlantic

Dreams of Freedom, Dreams of Domination

York, J. C. (2015)

New Internationalist

Social media has been privatised. Why do we treat it as a public space?

York, J. C. (2014)

New Statesman

Corporate Censorship is Untouched by the First Amendment

York, J. C. (2014)

The New York Times

When it comes to nudity, Facebook is little different than Victorian England

York, J. C. (2015)

The Guardian

A Brief History of YouTube Censorship

York, J.C. (2018)

Motherboard

Tech Companies' Transparency Efforts May Be Inadvertently Causing More Censorship

York, J.C. (2017)

Motherboard

Facebook: The New Censor's Office

York, J.C. (2018)

The New Internationalist

A Slippery Slope of Censorship at YouTube

Zeller, T. (2006)

New York Times

Facebook’s Censorship Problem

Zimmer, M. (2011)

Huffington Post, 22 June 2011