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New piece with Rebecca Scharlach: The TikTok ban won't work—it'll create exactly what it claims to prevent. Bans don't eliminate platforms, they transform them into less governable forms. Our analysis of the paradox at the heart of platform restrictions is out in Tech Policy Press now:

🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse pdimagearchive.org Public Domain Image Archive

Your favorite [✨manifesting✨] academic duo CJ Reynolds.bsky.social + I will talk online about the role of creators, degenerates, and provocateurs [not mutually exclusive] in platform governance tomorrow for the behind-the-scenes series from Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology 3-4 pm CET Register👇

The power of values for understanding social media is also their curse: they are everywhere. In an #openaccess article in New Media & Society, the Digital Values team presents an analytic framework for making sense of values in digital spheres: doi.org/10.1177/146144…

It has been a privilege to get to think with the #DigitalValues crew since… 2019? The theoretical framework we present here is a proper cumulation of our work, and very relevant to anyone else interested in values, social media, and global communication.

How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society