Further Readings
Featured Reads
Books and Journal Articles
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)
Surveillance of Communications: A Legitimization Crisis and the Need for Transparency
Losey, J. (2015)
International Journal of Communication
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
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
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
Blog Posts and News Articles
Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads
Chen, A. (2012)
Gawker
Leaked Documents Show How Instagram Polices Content to Prevent ‘PR Fires’
Cox, J. (2018)
Motherboard
Internal Documents Show How Facebook Decides When a Poop Emoji Is Hate Speech
Cox, J. (2018)
Motherboard
For better or worse, Twitter and Facebook are the guardians of free speech now
Ingram, M. (2014)
GigaOm
Facebook: The Privatization of our Privates and Life in the Company Town
Tufekci, Z. (2010)
Technosociology
When it comes to nudity, Facebook is little different than Victorian England
York, J. C. (2015)
The Guardian
Social media has been privatised. Why do we treat it as a public space?
York, J. C. (2014)
New Statesman
Tech Companies' Transparency Efforts May Be Inadvertently Causing More Censorship
York, J.C. (2017)
Motherboard