With the CO:RE Knowledge Base platform, the European project network CO:RE – Children Online: Research and Evidence presents a solid knowledge base for the topic of children and the internet for this year’s Safer Internet Day. The recently launched beta version was developed together with various stakeholders and offers educational and political decision makers as well as researchers more than 1,800 publications and 1,300 studies. These were collected from over 30 countries and categorised according to research and practice relevance.

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“The Ethics of Digitalisation” project has completed its first research sprint and published three policy briefs, calling for more transparency and accountability concerning algorithmic content moderation. The Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC) joint project is under the patronage of the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and funded by Stiftung Mercator. The initiative brings ethics to the forefront of the debate around platforms and their handling of content.

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Unusual opacity is the most salient characteristic of the media system in Israel, where the involvement of political figures in media operation raises serious concerns. Digital media see their advertising revenue growing sharply while print advertising continues its dramatic decline, according to a new report published today by the Center for Media, Data and Society.

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Commercial advertisers are the largest players in terms of funding spent in the media in India, but the state has also a significant role, financing the country’s public service broadcaster, shelling out public advertising money to commercial media and holding a monopoly over the news radio market. Large international players have been active in the small but rapidly expanding online news market, according to a new report published today by the Center for Media, Data and Society.

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