Publications

2025

Annabell, T., Kelder, T., van de Kerkhof, J., Gui, H., & Goanta, C. (2025). Influencer as individual and trader: exploring the boundaries of discrimination in influencer marketing from a multidisciplinary perspective. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.

Goanta, C., Zannettou, S., Kaushal, R., van de Kerkhof, J., Bertaglia, T., Annabell, T., Gui, H., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2025). The Great Data Standoff: Researchers vs. Platforms Under the Digital Services Act. Working paper

Gui, H., Costa Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., de Vries, S., & Spanakis, G. (2025). Across Platforms and Languages: Dutch Influencers and Legal Disclosures on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. In L. M. Aiello, T. Chakraborty, & S. Gaito (Eds.), Social Networks Analysis and Mining: 16th International Conference, ASONAM 2024, Rende, Italy, September 2–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part III (1 ed., pp. 3-12). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 15213 LNCS).

Annabell, T., Fieseler, C., Goanta, C., & Wildhaber, I. (2025). Introduction: The multifaceted nature of the book’s phenomenon. In T. Annabell, C. Fieseler, C. Goanta, & I. Wildhaber (Eds.), The Hashtag Hustle (pp. 1-11). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Annabell, T., Fieseler, C., Goanta, C., & Wildhaber, I. (Eds.) (2025). The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Divon, T., Annabell, T., & Goanta, C. (2025). Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok. New Media and Society.

Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2025). Influencer self-disclosure practices on Instagram: A multi-country longitudinal study. Online Social Networks and Media, 45, 1-14. Article 100298.

Annabell, T., Bishop, S., & Goanta, C. (2025). You and TikTok are, and will remain at all times, independent contractors. Internet Policy Review, 14(3).

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2024

Kaushal, R., van de Kerkhof, J., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). Automated Transparency: A Legal and Empirical Analysis of the Digital Services Act Transparency Database. In ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency 2024 ACM New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.02894

T. Bertaglia, L. Heisig, R. Kaushal, & A. Iamnitchi (2024). InstaSynth: Opportunities and Challenges in Generating Synthetic Instagram Data with ChatGPT for Sponsored Content Detection. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024).

T. Bertaglia, R. Kaushal, & A. Iamnitchi (2024). Leveraging GPT for the generation of multi-platform social media datasets for research. Henry Tari, Danial Khan, Justus Rutten, Darian Othman. 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.

Annabell, T., Aade, L., & Goanta, C. (2024). (Un)disclosed brand partnerships: How platform policies and interfaces shape commercial content for influencers. Internet Policy Review, 13(4).

InstaSynth: a tool for generating synthetic social media data. https://github.com/thalesbertaglia/instasynth. Thales Bertaglia. 2024.

Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). The Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement. In OASIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Media, Held in conjunction with the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2024 (pp. 1-9). (OASIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Media, Held in conjunction with the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2024). Association for Computing Machinery. https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/243876206/3677117.3685005.pdf

van de Kerkhof, J., de Gregorio, G., De Meyere, J., Gentile, G., Goanta, C., & Kuczerawy, A. (2024). Policy Brief for the European Commission's Digital Services Act Delegated Act on Data Access Consultation. European Commission. [Portal]

van de Kerkhof, J., Annabell, T., Goanta, C., Iamnitchi, A., Kaushal, R., & Spanakis, G. (2024). Policy Brief for the European Commission's Digital Services Act Delegated Act on Data Access consultation. European Commission. [Portal]

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2023

De Gregorio, Giovanni & Goanta, C. (2023). Content Monetization. Yale Information Society Project Platform Terminologies https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/isp/documents/contentmonetization_ispessayseries_2023.pdf

Goanta, C. (2023). Policy brief for European Commission's Digital Fairness check (public consultation). European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13413-Digital-fairness-fitness-check-on-EU-consumer-law/public-consultation_en

Aade, L., van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2023). Policy brief for French government public consultations on influencer regulation (Consultation publique “Influenceurs / Créateur de contenus”), https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3nRBtNId6ue_ZFpKuy0gRWdDst57sjH_Y8rYavcOxU/edit?usp=sharing.

Goanta, C. (Author), Straub, M. (Author), & van de Kerkhof, J. (Eds). (2023). Radical Reforms. Bringing Fairness to Social Media Contracts

Bertaglia, T., Huber, S., Goanta, C., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2023). Closing the Loop: Testing ChatGPT to Generate Model Explanations to Improve Human Labelling of Sponsored Content on Social Media.

Goanta, C. (2023). The New Social Media: Contracts, Consumers, and Chaos. Iowa Law Review Online, 108, 118-130. https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-108-response-pieces/2023/05/new-social-media-contracts-consumers-and-chaos.

Goanta, C. (2023). Content Monetization on Twitter: A Study of Platform Documentation and Transatlantic Legal Implications. (pp. 1-22). (TTLF Working Papers ; Vol. 103). Stanford University. http://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TTLF-WP-103-Goanta.pdf.

Goanta, C. (Author). (2023). Liver King: how the rise of mega-influencers has put consumers at risk. Web publication/site, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/liver-king-how-the-rise-of-mega-influencers-has-put-consumers-at-risk-196445

Mol, C., & Goanta, C. (2023). Shedding light on child influencers: Insights on the influencer economy, Dutch private law and children's rights. Tijdschrift voor Familie- en Jeugdrecht, (7/8), [2023/36].

Aade, L., Annabell, T., Costa Bertaglia, T., Iamnitchi, A., van de Kerkhof, J., Goanta, C., & Gui, H.(2023). Policy Brief for the European Commission's Digital Services Act implementation consultation. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13626-Digital-Services-Act-conducting-independent-audits/F3424101_en

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2022

Aletras, N., Chalkidis, I., Barrett, L., Goanta, C. (Ed.), & Preotiuc-Pietro, D. (2022). Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 ACL Anthology. https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1

Goanta, C. (2022). Now What: Exploring the DSA’s Enforcement Futures in Relation to Social Media Platforms and Native Advertising. Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-now-what/van

de Kerkhof, J. & Goanta, C. (2022). Fakeness in Political Popularity. Web publication/site, Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/fakeness/

Luzak, J., & Goanta, C. (2022). #Paidpartnership Means More than Money: Influencer Disclosure Obligations in the Aftermath of Peek & Cloppenburg. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML) , 2022(5), 188-191. https://kluwerlawonline.com/api/Product/CitationPDFURL?file=Journals%5CEuCML%5CEuCML2022031.pdf; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4282364.

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