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Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies Digital Solidarity Economies

María Belén Albornoz, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Ricard Espelt, Open University of Catalonia
Rafael Grohmann, University of Toronto
Denise Kasparian, University of Buenos Aires
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2075

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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Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies Digital Solidarity Economies

María Belén Albornoz, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Ricard Espelt, Open University of Catalonia
Rafael Grohmann, University of Toronto
Denise Kasparian, University of Buenos Aires
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2075

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.

Introduction to the special issue on content moderation on digital platforms Content moderation on digital platforms: Beyond states and firms

Romain Badouard, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University
Anne Bellon, University of Technology of Compiègne
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.1.2005

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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  • 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

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not peer reviewed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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Further Research Articles

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.

Solidarity across borders: Decoding the functionality of CoopCycle in Latin America

Alexandra Belén Gualavisí, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Daniel Vizuete-Sandoval, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2040

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.

A workers’ inquiry in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Insights and policies to align blockchain-based work with the solidarity economy

Tara Merk, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/University of Paris II
Laura Lotti, Independent researcher
Nick Houde, Independent researcher
Morshed Mannan, University of Edinburgh
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2053

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.

Engineering platform cooperativism: Contributions from the Brazilian solidarity economy

Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Camilla de Godoi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Flávio Chedid Henriques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2051

This study reveals how conventional digital platforms hinder worker collectives, and how engineering, reimagined through solidarity, can build cooperative alternatives from the ground up.