Skip to Main Content

Blog

Blog, Building the Field, Engineering and Policy Development

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.

Analysis and Theory, Blog

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.

Analysis and Theory, Blog

Social media as a crisis discipline

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

Analysis and Theory, Blog

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

RSM Research Assistant Dana Williams-Johnson compares modern issues of social media to the mythical, multi-headed hydra. 

Analysis and Theory, Blog

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

RSM Research Assistant Klaudia Jaźwińska argues that protection against online harassment of journalists must take a systemic approach rather than an individual approach. 

Analysis and Theory, Blog

Section 230: The right incentives?

RSM Research Assistant Trisha Prabhu on the challenges and possibilities Section 23o presents around online misinformation and harassment. 

Analysis and Theory, Blog

Student Groundwork

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

Blog, Building the Field

Student Groundwork: Initial Explorations from Research Assistants