Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-7309-7
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Digital Studies

Content Moderation Across Social Media Platforms examines the challenges, methods, and practices of moderating digital content, offering critical insights into platform-specific moderation strategies and their societal implications.

This book provides readers with advanced digital research methods to study content moderation, including analysis of moderation traces, performance metrics, and user experience simulations. It explores moderation histories and practices across platforms such as X/Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, and AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini. The book highlights problematic areas, such as uneven policy enforcement, data gaps, illegal trade, and election misinformation, while proposing a sustainable moderation philosophy for the public agenda.

Designed for researchers, educators, policymakers, and students in digital media studies, this book is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and address the complexities of content moderation in the digital age.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Rogers is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Director of the Digital Methods Initiative, Humanities Labs. He is the author of Doing Digital Methods (2nd edition, 2024), co-author with Tommaso Venturini of Digital Methods: A Short Introduction (2025) and editor of The Propagation of Misinformation on Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis (2023).