From Community Governance to Customer Service and Back Again: Re-Examining Pre-Web Models of Online Governance to Address Platforms’ Crisis of Legitimacy

As online platforms grow, they find themselves increasingly trying to balance two competing priorities: individual rights and public health. This has coincided with the professionalization of platforms’ trust and safety operations—what we call the “customer service” model of online governance. As pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ethan Zuckerman, Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2023-09-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231196864