Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms

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

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 840 g

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

List of contributors

1 On methods for content moderation research

RICHARD ROGERS
2 From Twitter to X: Demotion, Community Notes, and the apparent shift from adjudication to consensus-building

EMILLIE DE KEULENAAR
3 Ranking authority: A critical audit of YouTube’s content moderation

DANIEL JURG, SALVATORE ROMANO AND BERNHARD RIEDER
4 The performance of borderline content on Facebook

RICHARD ROGERS AND KAMILA KORONSKA
5 Minors as (misused) content on Instagram

NATALIA SÁNCHEZ-QUERUBÍN
6 Malicious earworms and useful memes: How the far-right surfs TikTok’s audio trends

MARLOES GEBOERS AND MARCUS BÖSCH
7 The internet’s dark alleys: Laissez-faire content moderation and illegal trade on Telegram

STIJN PEETERS
8 Grey areas of content moderation: A trace analysis of Pornhub

LUCIA BAINOTTI
9 Gatekeepers of the mobile ecosystem: Understanding app store moderation

ESTHER WELTEVREDE, ANNE HELMOND, FERNANDO VAN DER VLIST, STEFANIE DUGUAY AND MICHAEL DIETER
10 Walking the store: Cultic networks and content moderation on Amazon.com

MARC TUTERS
11 Contested components: Studying interface enrichment as a form of content moderation on Google and Bing

SAL HAGEN AND GUILLÉN TORRES
12 DSA, AIA, and LLMs: Approaches to conceptualizing and auditing moderation in LLM-based chatbots across languages and interfaces in electoral contexts

NATALIA STANUSCH, RAZIYE BUSE ÇETIN, SALVATORE ROMANO, MIAZIA SCHUELER, MERET BAUMGARTNER, BASTIAN AUGUST AND ALEXANDRA ROS¸CA
Index

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).