Platform Governance Research Lab
The Platform Governance Research Lab focuses on decentralized governance of marketplaces to curb misleading claims and digital harm.
What are we building?
Digital marketplaces like Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay are “two sided platforms” with one side producing goods and services and the other side consuming them; whether that is the sale of advertised products on these platforms, or the consumption of information on two-sided social media platforms like Meta, X (Twitter), Reddit, and Bluesky. We are creating a platform to model such two-sided interactive marketplaces for the production and consumption of information and goods. Read more
Gamification of Interventions
Gamify economic interventions for realistic modeling of advertising and purchasing behavior by participants.
Interactive Experiments
Our marketplace is interactive and real-time so participants can play in versus mode, simulating real-life advertising.
Replicable Science
Re-run experiments with the same settings at the click of a button, making scientific experimentation trivially reproducible.
Our Research Process in Four Steps
Step 1: Design
Researchers design gamified experiments to simulate real-world consumer-producer marketplaces.
Step 2: Deploy
Human players join a game to play the designed experiment.
Step 3: Monitor
Data is collected from experimental activity.
Step 4: Analyze
Data is analyzed to test hypotheses.
Supported By
Technology Partners
