CAll for Regulation support In Social MediA
An interdisciplinary research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The problem
The ubiquitous adoption of social media has facilitated the distribution of harmful content such as hate speech and disinformation. The reluctance of social media companies to handle harmful content and the lack of transparency in their moderation policies have led to calls for regulation of social media platforms.
However, the design and enforcement of social media regulation present critical difficulties for policymakers, including
- limited access to data, statistics, metrics, and algorithms
- lack of tools for predicting the impact and unintended consequences of specific regulations
- and diverse contexts of different countries
Our goal
To establish a clear, traceable, and replicable methodology to craft policy recommendations that effectively mitigate the harms of social media actors responsible for abusive and illicit behaviors.
Inputs from media policy and governance research will be used to formulate a set of policy alternatives that are expected to produce effective solutions for the mitigation of online harm. Computational social science methodologies will in turn model the effects of moderation policies and quantify their impact.
CARISMA will generate policy recommendations and quantitative evidence to classify regulatory policies and assess their expected impact within the information ecosystem. This will form the basis, for platforms and regulators of any country, to react in a timely fashion to social media misuse by crafting effective and transparent policy interventions.
Our Team
Silvia Giordano
Professor and Head of Research
Institute of Informatics and Networking Systems, Department of Innovative Technologies
University of Applied Science and Arts
Switzerland
Filippo Menczer
Distinguished Luddy Professor and Director
Observatory on Social Media
Indiana University
USA
Davide Bertacco
SW Developer
Institute of Informatics and Networking Systems, Department of Innovative Technologies
University of Applied Science and Arts
Switzerland
Gianluca Nogara
Research Assistant
Institute of Informatics and Networking Systems, Department of Innovative Technologies
University of Applied Science and Arts
Switzerland
Erfan Samieyan Sahneh
Research Assistant
Institute of Informatics and Networking Systems, DTI
University of Applied Science and Arts
University of Bologna
Switzerland/Italy
Azza Bouleimen
Phd Student
Institute of Informatics and Networking Systems, DTI
University of Applied Science and Arts
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Fatima Ezzeddine
Phd Student
Institute of Informatics and Networking Systems, DTI
University of Applied Science and Arts
Università della Svizzera italiana
Switzerland
Contact
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