Findings from other countries indicate that women drop out of platform work twice as quickly as men. We showcase that Serbian women crowdworkers have the same survival rates as men as long as they have the same level of skills and education.
A Metaverse from a non-regulated tech environment might cause digital harm to vulnerable communities. The authors argue that addressing policy gaps with social work principles will lead to algorithmic equity in the virtual world.
Tackling news media underfunding: from copyright reform to cutting the (platform) middleman
Despite the European effort to solve the problem of press financing through copyright reform, some media outlets among other in Hungary, take their destiny in their own hands.
Transparency and (no) more in the Political Advertising Regulation
The Regulation on Political Advertising (RPA) represents the EU’s most significant effort to address concerns about political advertising’s democratic impact, but does it live up to the Commission’s hype ?
Identifying harm in manipulative artificial intelligence practices
This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA
P2B and the missing relational dimensions of the Digital Services Act
This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA
The Digital Services Act: risk-based regulation of online platforms
This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA
Framing the Digital Services Act within transatlantic digital constitutionalism
This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA
Beyond GAFAM: How size-or-silo regulation fails to account for organisational diversity in the platform economy
This opinion piece argues that current attempts at platform regulation will fall short if they continue to focus on platform size, or if they remain limited to particular normative silos.
Germany: A change of (dis)course in digital policy
F5, a new German civil society coalition is calling for a change of perspective: digital policy must finally centre on promoting the common good.