The Fact of Content Moderation; Or, Let’s Not Solve the Platforms’ Problems for Them

Tarleton Gillespie
Additional contact information
Tarleton Gillespie: Microsoft Research New England, USA / Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA

Media and Communication, 2023, vol. 11, issue 2, 406-409

Abstract: Recent social science concerning the information technology industries has been driven by a sense of urgency around the problems social media platforms face. But it need not be our job to solve the problems these industries have created, at least not on the terms in which they offer them. When researchers are enlisted in solving the industry’s problems, we tend to repeat some of the missteps common to the study of technology and society.

Keywords: content moderation; governance; industry research; platforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6610 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cog:meanco:v11:y:2023:i:2:p:406-409

DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6610

Access Statistics for this article

Media and Communication is currently edited by Raquel Silva

More articles in Media and Communication from Cogitatio Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Vieira () and IT Department ().