Publications

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Closed publisher links are pink. Links to open access publications and preprints are green.

Books

• The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation.
  Robert Gorwa, In Press.
  Coming Soon from OUP

Articles

• Moderating Model Marketplaces: Platform Governance Puzzles for AI Intermediaries.
  Robert Gorwa and Michael Veale, 2023
  SocArXiv
• AI and Global Governance: Modalities, Rationales, Tensions.
  Michael Veale, Kira Matus, and Robert Gorwa, 2023
  Annual Review of Law and Social Science
• Who are the Stakeholders in Platform Governance?
  Robert Gorwa, 2022
  Yale Journal of Law & Technology
• Elections, Institutions, and the Regulatory Politics of Platform Governance: The Case of the German NetzDG.
  Robert Gorwa, 2021
  Telecommunications Policy
  SocArXiv
• Algorithmic Content Moderation: Technical and Political Challenges in the Automation of Platform Governance.
  Robert Gorwa, Reuben Binns, and Christian Katzenbach, 2020
  Big Data & Society
• The Platform Governance Triangle: Conceptualising the Informal Regulation of Online Content.
  Robert Gorwa, 2019
  Internet Policy Review
• What is Platform Governance?
  Robert Gorwa, 2019
  Information, Communication & Society
  SocArXiv
• Unpacking the Social Media Bot: A Typology to Guide Research and Policy
  Robert Gorwa and Douglas Guilbeault, 2018
  Policy & Internet
  ArXiv

Chapters

• Democratic Transparency in the Platform Society
  Robert Gorwa and Timothy Garton Ash, 2020
  In Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field and Prospects for Reform
  Cambridge University Press
  
• Big Tech Hits the Diplomatic Circuit: Norm Entrepreneurship, Policy Advocacy, and Microsoft's Cybersecurity Tech Accord
  Robert Gorwa and Anton Peez, 2020
  In Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, Power, and Diplomacy
  Rowman & Littlefield
  
• Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda
  Carl Ohman, Robert Gorwa, and Luciano Floridi, 2019
  In Ethics, Governance, and Policies in Artificial Intelligence
  Springer
  Minds & Machines
  
• Poland: Unpacking the Ecosystem of Social Media Manipulation
  Robert Gorwa, 2018
  In Computational Propaganda: Parties, Politicians, and Manipulation on Social Media
  Oxford University Press
  

Reviews

• Digital Oligarchy
  On Jillian York's Silicon Values, 2022
  LA Review of Books
  
• How We Can Socialize Big Tech
  On James Muldoon's Platform Socialism, 2022
  Jacobin
  
• The Last of the Unicorns
  On Siva Vaidhyanathan's Anti-Social Media, 2019
  LA Review of Books
  
• Platform Moderation and its Discontents
  On Tarleton Gillespie's Custodians of the Internet, 2018
  LA Review of Books
  

Reports

• What Can Be Done? Digital Media Policy Options for Strengthening European Democracy
  Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Robert Gorwa, and Madeleine de Cock Buning, 2019
  Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
  
• Lessons In Resilience: Canada's Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election
  Taylor Owen, Aengus Bridgeman, Robert Gorwa et al., 2019
  Public Policy Forum
  
• Glasnost: Nine Ways that Facebook Could Make Itself a Better Forum for Free Speech and Democracy
  Timothy Garton Ash, Robert Gorwa, and Danae Metaxa, 2019
  Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
  

Commentaries

• European Security Officials Double Down on Client-Side Scanning
  A few reflections on the transnational politics (and interest groups) driving EU draft CSAM proposals
  Robert Gorwa, 2022
  Lawfare
  
• Expanding the Debate About Content Moderation
  A 'roundtable' piece with short inputs from a number of major names in the content moderation research space (honoured to be included!)
  Tarleton Gillespie et al., 2020
  Internet Policy Review
  
• As Platforms Rely Less on Human Content Moderators, What's at Stake?
  Short invited contribution reflecting on the news that major platforms were ramping up their use of automated content screening tools in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic
  Robert Gorwa, 2020
  Centre for International Governance Innovation
  
• Regulating Platforms Softly
  An essay reflecting on informal and co-regulatory models for platform regulation; part of essay collection on 'Models for Platform Governance'
  Robert Gorwa, 2019
  Centre for International Governance Innovation
  
• Big Tech Hits the Diplomatic Circuit
  Summary of book chapter looking at the growing and unique role played by Microsoft in international digital policy - and their unique 'diplomatic' lobbying strategy
  Robert Gorwa and Anton Peez, 2019
  Berlin Policy Journal
  
• What Policymakers Can Do For Europe's Digital Media Ecosystem
  Summary of RISJ report looking at sustainable media policy suggestions for the von Der Leyen Commission
  Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Madeleine de Cock Buning, and Robert Gorwa, 2019
  The Conversation
  
• The Shifting Definition of Platform Governance
  Invited contribution with some general reflections on how to understand and define 'platform governance' - both as a field of research and as a terrain of political struggle
  Robert Gorwa, 2019
  Centre for International Governance Innovation
  
• How Mark Zuckerberg Could Save Facebook From Itself
  Op-ed with summary takeaways from RISJ 'Glasnost' report looking at the slow increase in Facebook's community standards-related transparency in 2018-2019
  Robert Gorwa and Danae Metaxa, 2019
  WIRED UK
  
• Facebook's Decency Conundrum
  Print mag piece with some thoughts on the challenges of moderating borderline content (like 'art')
  Robert Gorwa, 2018
  WIRED UK
  
• Twitter has a Bot Problem, and Wikipedia Might Have the Solution
  Op-ed looking at Wikipedia's bot classification and reporting system, and comparing that to Twitter's decision to privilige developer access over content moderation
  Robert Gorwa, 2017
  Quartz
  
• Tinder Nightmares
  Op-ed applying some reflections from our Policy & Internet article on bots to an interesting (and potentially problematic) use of automated Tinder bots for electioneering in the UK
  Robert Gorwa and Douglas Guilbeault, 2017
  WIRED UK
  
• Quantum Leap
  Essay discussing developments in quantum computing (and quantum resistant cryptography), and its potential implications for geopolitics
  Taylor Owen and Robert Gorwa, 2016
  Foreign Affairs