Swapneel Mehta

Perspective Swapneel Mehta, Deepika Raman, Samuel Ferguson / Aug 26, 2025 This article is adapted from and extends A History of Transparency Regulations: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Shaping Social Media Regulation and Self-Governance. Alongside an increasing awareness of the harms that proliferate across digital platforms, governments are engaged in various attempts to regulate them.

In this second article on career choices and job opportunities, we look at the advantages of starting a career by contributing to open source. There are many boot camps and guides out there trying to sell you courses that will launch your career in technology. They promise to teach you valuable skills that are critical to marketing yourself as a great programmer. Interestingly, most of them focus on building your open source programming portfolio by means of hands-on projects.