Publications

Not Just Another Black Box: Explainable LLM Topic Analysis for Public Consultations on the Digital Fairness Act. Under peer review.

In Other Words: The Regulatory Compliance Implications of Detecting Hidden Influencer Marketing using Natural Language Processing. Under peer review.

Gui, H., Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., & Spanakis, G. (2026). Influencer Discovery Platforms: Technology and Transparency. In J. Costello, H. Cocker, & R. Mardon (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Influencer Marketing (Chapter 16). Routledge.

Bertaglia, T., Gui, H., Goanta, C., & Spanakis, G. (2026). Traceable by Design: An LLM Pipeline and Dashboard for EU Regulatory Consultation Analysis. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Reasoning with Evidence in Law Enforcement and Forensics (RELAF 2026), co-located with ICAIL 2026, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 4253 (pp. 118–127). arXiv · Dashboard

Annabell, T., Aade, L., & Goanta, C. (2026). Live shopping as a participatory spectacle: The intersection of user practices, platform affordances and governance regimes in the repurposing of TikTok LIVE for e-commerce. Platforms & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624261457280

Annabell, T., & Goanta, C. (2026). Governing political content: platform governance and the blurred boundaries of political and commercial expression on social media. Frontiers in Communication, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2026.1756510

Annabell, T., & Goanta, C. (2026). The Regulation of Influencers: Expanding the EU Regulatory Horizon beyond Disclosures. In The Routledge Companion to Social Media Influencers. Routledge.

Goanta, C., Zannettou, S., Kaushal, R., van de Kerkhof, J., Costa Bertaglia, T., Annabell, T., Gui, H., Spanakis, G., & Iamnitchi, A. (2026). The Great Data Standoff: Researchers vs. Platforms Under the Digital Services Act. In J. Blackburn, C. Buntain, & F. Benevenuto (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 874–888). AAAI Press. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42671

Schulte, L., Pasic, D., Goanta, C., & Iamnitchi, A. (2026). Multi-Platform Analysis of Electoral Discourse on Social Media as a Research Infrastructure Problem. In WebSci Companion '26: Companion Publication of the 2026 18th ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 66–69). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3795513.3807440

Annabell, T., Kelder, T., van de Kerkhof, J., Gui, H., & Goanta, C. (2026). Influencer as individual and trader: exploring the boundaries of discrimination in influencer marketing from a multidisciplinary perspective. Continuum, 40(2), 222–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2518967

Divon, T., Annabell, T., & Goanta, C. (2026). Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok. New Media and Society, 28(3), 1190–1218. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241304657

Annabell, T. (2026). Calling out disclosures, protecting followers: the new governors of influencer culture on TikTok. Information, Communication & Society, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2026.2674878

Tari, H., Šereiva, N., Kaushal, R., Bertaglia, T., & Iamnitchi, A. (2026). Towards High-Fidelity Synthetic Multi-Platform Social Media Datasets via Large Language Models. ACM Transactions on the Web (January 2026). https://doi.org/10.1145/3789496

Zhang, Y., & Bertaglia, T. (2026). LinGO: A Linguistic Graph Optimization Framework with LLMs for Interpreting Intents of Online Uncivil Discourse. arXiv:2602.04693.

Goanta, C. (2025). Tussenpersonen bij content monetization: de complexe kwalificatie van micropayments op TikTok Live. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht, 2025(10), 320–331.

Annabell, T., Goanta, C., & Gui, H. (2025). Content creators. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (Vol. 1, pp. 284–287). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301447.vol1.00074

Goanta, C. (2025). The edge of empiricism in European consumer law and policy: proposing a framework for the assessment of scientific evidence. In G. Veldt, K. Heidary, & V. Mak (Eds.), Empirics and Consumer Law in Changing Markets (pp. 44–61). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035327096.00007

Aade, L., & Goanta, C. (2025). Ban-It-Harderism in European Consumer Law: The Case of the French Influencer Law. Journal of Consumer Policy, 48(4), 523–538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-025-09600-6

Annabell, T., Goanta, C., Kelder, T., & Pflücke, F. (2025). Sponsored by the State: The Private Regulation of Government Influencers. Journal of Consumer Policy, 48(4), 489–521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-025-09598-x

Ortolani, P., Vahed, S., Goanta, C., & Sanfey, A. G. (2025). The Digital Services Act and the psychology of social media content reporting: drawing legal inferences from a behavioural experiment on notice-and-action mechanisms. European Law Open, 4(3), 464–480. https://doi.org/10.1017/elo.2025.10032

Annabell, T., Bishop, S., & Goanta, C. (2025). You and TikTok are, and will remain at all times, independent contractors. Internet Policy Review, 14(3), 1–52. https://doi.org/10.14763/2025.3.2014

van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2025). Van Code is Wet naar Wet is Code: Geautomatiseerde Transparantie in de Digitaledienstenverordening. Tijdschrift voor Internetrecht, 2025(1), 19–26.

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 (pp. 3–12). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15213. Springer.

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. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035332816

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.

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. Code

van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2025). Shadowbanned on X: The DSA in Action. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 16(1), 352–359. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2024.81

Gui, H., Bertaglia, T., Annabell, T., Goanta, C., Dooper, T., & Spanakis, G. (2025). Evaluating LLM-Generated Legal Explanations for Regulatory Compliance in Social Media Influencer Marketing. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2025.

Annabell, T., Gorwa, R., Scharlach, R., van de Kerkhof, J., & Bertaglia, T. (2025). TikTok Search Recommendations: Governance and Research Challenges. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance (COMPASS).

Gui, H., Bertaglia, T., Goanta, C., & Spanakis, G. (2025). Computational studies in influencer marketing: A systematic literature review. arXiv:2506.14602.

Annabell, T. (2025). The Ideal Influencer: How Influencer Coaches and Platforms Construct Creators as Monetizing for the Right Reasons. Social Media + Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251323951

Bauer, J., Kaushal, R., Bertaglia, T., & Iamnitchi, A. (2025). Towards Fairness Assessment of Dutch Hate Speech Detection. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2025).

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

Bertaglia, T., Heisig, L., Kaushal, R., & Iamnitchi, A. (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).

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).

Bertaglia, T. (2024). InstaSynth: a tool for generating synthetic social media data. https://github.com/thalesbertaglia/instasynth

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). Association for Computing Machinery. 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. PDF

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. PDF

Tari, H., Khan, M. D., Rutten, J., Othman, D., Bertaglia, T., Kaushal, R., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). Leveraging GPT for the Generation of Multi-Platform Social Media Datasets for Research. In Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675153

Bertaglia, T. (2024). Decoding digital influence: Computational insights into monetisation, controversy, and compliance in the creator economy. PhD thesis, Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20241107tb

Goanta, C., Camps, M., Costa Bertaglia, T., Spanakis, J., & Iamnitchi, A. (2024). Child en family influencers op sociale media in Nederland: Naar een onderzoeksmethode. Boom.

De Gregorio, G., & Goanta, C. (2023). Content Monetization. Yale Information Society Project Platform Terminologies. PDF

Goanta, C. (2023). Policy brief for European Commission's Digital Fairness check (public consultation). European Commission. Consultation

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”). Document

Goanta, C., Straub, M. (Authors), & van de Kerkhof, J. (Ed.) (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. PDF

Goanta, C. (2023). Liver King: how the rise of mega-influencers has put consumers at risk. The Conversation.

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. Consultation

Goanta, C., & Bertaglia, T. (2023). Digital influencers, monetization models and platforms as transactional spaces. Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.25112/bcij.v3i1.3328

Bertaglia, T., Bartekova, K., Jongma, R., McCarthy, S., & Iamnitchi, A. (2023). Sexism in Focus: An Annotated Dataset of YouTube Comments for Gender Bias Research. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3599696.3612900

Aletras, N., Chalkidis, I., Barrett, L., Goanta, C. (Ed.), & Preotiuc-Pietro, D. (2022). 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.

van de Kerkhof, J., & Goanta, C. (2022). Fakeness in Political Popularity. Verfassungsblog.

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. Kluwer · SSRN