3 papers
cs.IR2025
TikTok Search Recommendations: Governance and Research Challenges
Taylor Annabell, Robert Gorwa, Rebecca Scharlach +2
Like other social media, TikTok is embracing its use as a search engine, developing search products to steer users to produce searchable content and engage in content discovery. Th…
cs.CY2023
Moderating Model Marketplaces: Platform Governance Puzzles for AI Intermediaries
Robert Gorwa, Michael Veale
The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries such as Hugging Face provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model ma…
cs.CY2018
Studying Politically Vulnerable Communities Online: Ethical Dilemmas, Questions, and Solutions
Robert Gorwa, Philip N. Howard
This short article introduces the concept of political vulnerability for social media researchers. How are traditional notions of harm challenged by research subjects in politicall…