Artificial intelligence (AI) is a salient but polarizing issue of recent times. Actors around the
world are engaged in building a governance regime around it. What exactly the “it” is that is …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

Public debate about content moderation has overwhelmingly focused on removal: social
media platforms deleting content and suspending users, or opting not to do so. However …

Whose labels should a machine learning (ML) algorithm learn to emulate? For ML tasks
ranging from online comment toxicity to misinformation detection to medical diagnosis …

Understanding the landscape of potential harms from algorithmic systems enables
practitioners to better anticipate consequences of the systems they build. It also supports the …

While champions of the “new” creative economy consistently hype the career possibilities
furnished by YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and the like, critics have cast a spotlight on the …

Existing research has shown that people experience third-party evaluations as a form of
control because they try to align their behavior with evaluations' criteria to secure more …

While metrics have long played an important, albeit fraught, role in the media and cultural
industries, quantified indices of online visibility—likes, favorites, subscribers, and shares …

Machine learning classifiers for human-facing tasks such as comment toxicity and
misinformation often score highly on metrics such as ROC AUC but are received poorly in …

Great controversy has surrounded the growth of the music streaming services that are now
central to the music industries internationally. One important set of criticisms concerns the …