Blog

May 7, 2024

TikTok Bill Q&A: Experts Forecast Legal & Creative Impact

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media spoke with leading experts in law and digital media studies to weigh in on the U.S.'s divest-or-ban order against TikTok.

February 23, 2024

We spend less time on TikTok than we fear

Alum Elissa Redmiles summarizes her collaborative work on the (in)accuracy of user estimates of TikTok usage, and lays out the implications:

"Like a restrictive diet, controlling how much time we spend on TikTok will only make us feel worse about the time we spend. Instead, we need to do the hard work of critically reflecting on how we’re spending our time. Are we enjoying ourselves? What content are we consuming? How is it shaping what we think?"

February 2, 2024

A Herculean task: How do we save ourselves from social media?

February 2, 2024

The online harassment of journalists poses a threat to democracy that demands systemic solutions

February 2, 2024

Private Social Media Data in the Public Interest: What’s Next?

Recap of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media’s first public event.

February 2, 2024

It Could Happen (T)here: Transnational Advocacy Strategies Around Social Media

Invited workshop brings activists, scholars, and practitioners together from across disciplines, sectors, and countries.

February 2, 2024

Section 230: The right incentives?

February 2, 2024

Social media as a crisis discipline

Invited workshop brings experts together from across disciplines, sectors, and countries.

February 2, 2024

Student Groundwork

Initial explorations from research assistants at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media.

December 15, 2023

The Right to Information in the Private Sector

Visiting Scholar Lisa Austin argues for a rethinking of digital epistemic rights:

"What the right to information requires is that our digitally-mediated world be created in such a way (through law and policy as well as technological means) that it can be independently knowable and interrogated and that this ability is equitably distributed."

March 20, 2023

Gonzalez & Taamneh: Takeways from the Cases

Research Assistant Dylan Moses crystalizes key insights from the Gonzalez and Taamneh oral arguments.

February 20, 2023

Friends of the Court:
Gonzalez Amici Offer Their Perspectives

As part of our RE:COMMITTED newsletter, we checked in with individuals and organizations who filed amicus briefs in Gonzalez v. Google. Legal experts from the Knight First Amendment Institute, Public Knowledge, EPIC, the Cato Institute, and elsewhere weighed in.

February 20, 2023

Gonzalez and Taamneh: What You Need to Know

RSM Research Assistant and Harvard Law School 2L Dylan Moses argues the importance of Section 230 and explains the legal nuts and bolts of Gonzalez and Taamneh.

December 1, 2022

From Emergency to Prevention:
Protecting Journalists from Online Abuse

How can online technologies evolve to provide better safeguards to journalists? PEN America and RSM hosted an interdisciplinary workshop with reporters, academics, civil society experts, and platform representatives to brainstorm solutions.