Zapraszamy do obejrzenia nagrania webinaru “Platform regulation: creating boundaries for meaningful exchanges online”, który odbył się 29 kwietnia jako kolejny z serii „The new media: between science and fiction”. W webinarze wzięły udział dwie ekspertki: Dominika Bychawska-Siniarska i Jillian C. York. Wspólnie z moderatorem Maciejem Kuziemskim dyskutowali o wolności słowa w mediach społecznościowych, problemach z tym związanych oraz o potrzebie i możliwościach regulacji tych platform. Więcej informacji (w j. angielskim) o tym cyklu webinarów można znaleźć na stronie: en.fulbright.edu.pl/webinars.
Most of us use social media everyday. We scroll for news, entertainment or simply to stay in touch with our friends and close ones. Unfortunately, these platforms also work as a channel to spread hate speech and fake news. Anxiety, misinformation, surveillance, lack of democratic supervision are just a selection of problems social media platforms (and their users) have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
It has become clear that the way social media platforms work should be regulated, but how and by whom? The platforms’ self regulation does not seem to work properly and given the global scale of their functioning, effective supervision is also problematic. Billions of posts, images, live streams every day make content moderation very difficult. Should social media platforms hire more people, or put more work into improving the automation processes in order to escape faulty moderation? Should legal instruments be introduced to regulate them from top down? Are there any good practices?
Apart from bringing people closer to one another, online platforms create boundaries of what can be said and who has the power to do so. In this webinar, we aim for a discussion about the new media platforms and speech policing that will explore the legal, ethical and practical perspectives.