{"id":126,"date":"2023-04-26T19:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/pgmt\/?p=126"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:36:13","slug":"empirical-platform-governance-talk-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/pgmt\/2023\/empirical-platform-governance-talk-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes \u2013 ZeMKI and University of Groningen launch online talk series on platform governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lab \u201cPlatform Governance, Media, and Technology\u201d (PGMT) at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-bremen.de\/en\/zemki\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI),<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> University of Bremen, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rug.nl\/research\/icog\/research\/research-centres\/centre-for-journalism-and-mediastudies\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Centre for Media and Journalism Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, University of Groningen, are launching an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/pgmt\/online-talk-series\/\">online talk and discussion series \u201cConversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research\u201d<\/a>. This series kicks-off on Tuesday, May 9, 15:00 CEST with a talk by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tarleton\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tarleton Gillespie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, one of the most prominent researchers in the field of platform governance, on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/pgmt\/online-talk-series\/session-1-tarleton-gillespie-studying-what-platforms-dont-necessarily-want-to-talk-about\/\">Studying What Platforms Don\u2019t Necessarily Want to Talk About<\/a>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Platform governance has received extraordinary public, scholarly, and policy attention in recent years. Knowledge and information about how platform powershapes public communication is critical for informed public debates and evidence-based policy-making. At the same time, researchers seeking to investigate content moderation and other platform activities with academic rigour and empirical consistency face substantial challenges, most prominently with regard to data access. Yet, there is a growing community of scholars doing empirical research in this domain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This series of talks invites scholars in this topic to share their experiences and views, fostering\u00a0 community exchange about how we can study platform governance in this challenging context. How can we cope with precarious or non-existent data access? How do we manoeuvre confidentiality and sensitivity of critical information? How do we deal with grappling decisions that we face in our empirical research?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hosts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-bremen.de\/zemki\/das-zemki\/personen\/mitglieder\/mitgliedsprofil\/idm\/24837?cHash=bb818bf157ef56c46a1d4fe6b9b3dc32\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christian Katzenbach<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-bremen.de\/en\/zemki\/about-zemki\/persons\/members\/member-profile\/idm\/25931?cHash=2bff48565a11a81511b3f373494f1d51\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paloma Viejo Otero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rug.nl\/staff\/j.c.vieira.magalhaes\/?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jo\u00e3o C. Magalh\u00e3es<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are bringing the emerging expert community together to talk about these challenges and options, once a month for\u00a0 1-hour online sessions. The format puts exchange and conversation front and center. Each session starts with a short input talk by a scholar portraying a method or recent empirical study in the field of platform governance. Presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This online series is part of a set of broader activities of ZeMKI, the PGMT lab, and the Center for Media and Technology to foster community formation and exchange in the field of platform governance, such as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformgovernancearchive.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Platform Governance Archive (PGA)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/platgov.net\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Platform<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Governance <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Network (P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">latGovNet<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Information about the Online Talk Series: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/pgmt\/online-talk-series\/\">https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/pgmt\/online-talk-series\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration for the Talk: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/xq2irQb4mnHkLUcD6\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/xq2irQb4mnHkLUcD6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lab \u201cPlatform Governance, Media, and Technology\u201d (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, are launching an online talk and discussion series \u201cConversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research\u201d. 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