Media and Communications: Recent submissions
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Social Media Regulation Futures: Learning from International Policy Mixes
Published 2024There has been a turn worldwide towards social media regulation in the context of concerns about online harms, including those arising from misinformation. Social media regulation largely involves nation-states – or in the ...Open AccessArticle -
CAVRN Syllabus, Vol. 2
Published 2024-02-15In its second volume CAVRN explores the implications that VR and AR technologies have on politics and policymaking, identity, ethics, socialisation and community building, and the economy from a critical, interdisciplinary ...Open AccessReport, Research -
The Return of the Regulatory State: Nation-States as Policy Actors in Digital Platform Governance
Published 2024This chapter explores the rise of digital platform regulation by nation-states as a manifestation of the rise of "big state" nationalism and the decline of the open Internet.Book chapter -
The Value of News: Aligning Economic and Social Value From an Institutional Perspective
Published 2023-11-22Journalism is considered essential to a functioning democracy. However, the continued viability of commercial news production is uncertain. News producers continue to lose advertising revenue to platform businesses dominating ...Open AccessArticle -
CAVRN Syllabus, Vol. 1
Published 2023In this inaugural volume, we introduce CAVRN and set out an agenda for a Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research Network. Through what we refer to as ‘critical AR and VR studies’, we argue there is urgent need for ...Open AccessBook