Although they are breaking with uberisation, bike delivery platform cooperatives are nonetheless two-fold organisations - political and economic - whose compromises generate grey zones explored in this article through the economic relationships, labour process and knowledge management of a Barcelona-based case study.
Research Articles
This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership.
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Internet Policy Review is an open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.
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Recent Special issues
This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership.
Content moderation encompasses a great diversity of actors who develop specific practices. Their precise contribution to the democratisation of content regulation, and to the balance between public and private interests in platform governance, remains little studied. This special issue is an attempt at remedying this.
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Abstract submission deadline: 15 Oct 2025
News and Opinion Pieces
Often invisible amid the noisy proclamations of leaders from large states and big tech firms, representatives of small states have nonetheless powerfully shaped EU digital politics.
Thinking of health data governance through an intersectional lens will help to achieve equitable health outcomes.
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- Research articlesIn-depth scholarly research papers and essays
- ConceptsCritical reflections on emerging core concepts of the digital society
- EditorialsContextual or thematic introductions to special issues
peer reviewed
not peer reviewed
- EssaysFree-form yet in-depth contentions with issues of academic or social relevance
- NewsJournalistic reports on events of interest to the Internet Policy Review community
- OpinionsOpinion pieces commenting on developments in the realm of internet policy
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Special Sections
Two special sections of Internet Policy Review
How does resistance evolve under the pressure of datafication? People adopt defensive and productive tactics to resist the harms and risks of a data-driven society.
Further Research Articles
This paper analyses CoopCycle’s adaptation processes across Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, showing how solidarity, as a programmatic idea, shapes socio-technical change and challenges dominant models of the digital economy.
Based on a digital-urban ethnography of two queer spaces in Hong Kong, this paper argues that material, affective, and cultural forms of reproductive work with digital platforms illuminate both the tensions and potentials of platformised solidarity economies.
The Drivers Cooperative reveals how diverging stakeholders in platform cooperatives can fracture in their pursuit of developing these platforms.
This article explores working conditions in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and proposes mechanisms for DAOs to become more equitable workplaces, aligned with the solidarity economy.
This study reveals how conventional digital platforms hinder worker collectives, and how engineering, reimagined through solidarity, can build cooperative alternatives from the ground up.