The third talk of the DSA mini series organized by Katrin Weller, Yannik Peters, and Johannes Gruber took place online on Friday, 20 March 2026: Dr. Leticia Bode (Georgetown University) and Peter Chapman (Knight-Georgetown Institute) presented "Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data". The starting point is the growing imbalance between restrictions on research access on the one hand and the monetization of public platform data on the other, with consequences for transparency, oversight, and freedom of expression. The framework sets a floor for independent access to particularly influential public platform data, defines corresponding categories, emphasizes context dependence, and describes overlapping access mechanisms.
Link to the event: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1260/
