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Facts and figures or prayers and hugs: how people with different health conditions support each other online
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Online support groups are one of the major ways in which the Internet has fundamentally…
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Topic modelling content from the “Everyday Sexism” project: what’s it all about?
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How does the topic modelling algorithm ‘discover’ the topics within the context of everyday sexism?
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The limits of uberisation: How far can platforms go?
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Homejoy was slated to become the Uber of domestic cleaning services. It was a platform…
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Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
Exploring the complexities of policing the web for extremist material, and its implications for security,…
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New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations
For data sharing between organisations to be straight forward, there needs to a common understanding…
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Controlling the crowd? Government and citizen interaction on emergency-response platforms
Government involvement in crowdsourcing efforts can actually be used to control and regulate volunteers from…
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Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk
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When considered in relation to individuals’ privacy, metadata should not be viewed as fundamentally different…
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Does crowdsourcing citizen initiatives affect attitudes towards democracy?
Exploring how involvement in the citizen initiatives affects attitudes towards democracy
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Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?
Discussing the digitally crowdsourced law for same-sex marriage that was passed in Finland and analysing…
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Assessing crowdsourcing technologies to collect public opinion around an urban renovation project
How do you increase the quality of feedback without placing citizens on different-level playing fields…
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Crowdsourcing ideas as an emerging form of multistakeholder participation in Internet governance
Assessing the extent to which crowdsourcing represents an emerging opportunity of participation in global public…
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Creating a semantic map of sexism worldwide: topic modelling of content from the “Everyday Sexism” project
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What are the most common types of sexism globally, and (how) do they relate to…