Robyn Caplan

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Assistant Prof at Duke Sanford. Research affiliate at Data & Society. Affiliate at UNC CITAP. PhD from Rutgers.
Platform governance, media policy, mom. 

My tweets were often called “very relatable.”
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Damn! Love this initial provocation by @thechristinet on the affective and administrative labor of (particularly) online spaces #aoir23

That article I've been tooting about forever is finally out. Thank you to my incredible and mysterious peer reviewers who honestly deserve to be co-authors on this damn thing.

This article looks at how platforms have been trying to 'distribute' content policy-making to external stakeholders. It uses the lens of "network governance" to describe this dynamic, arguing that platforms have been deploying a 'brokered' form that introduces new opp/issues for accountability.

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/20035/4180

Networked Platform Governance: The Construction of the Democratic Platform | Caplan | International Journal of Communication

Networked Platform Governance: The Construction of the Democratic Platform