The article shows how EU regulatory approaches to AI align with Silicon Valley technosolutionist imaginaries.
Research Articles
This introduction explores how the evolution of the metaverse as an additional virtual public sphere challenges existing governance frameworks, and demonstrates the need for a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach to adapting and re-imagining these frameworks.
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Internet Policy Review is an open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.
Scholars, regulators, journalists, activists, and other stakeholders publish in the journal in
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- In-depth scholarly research papers and essays
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- Critical reflections on emerging core concepts of the digital society
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- Contextual or thematic introductions to special issues
Essays
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Recent Special issues
This introduction explores how the evolution of the metaverse as an additional virtual public sphere challenges existing governance frameworks, and demonstrates the need for a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach to adapting and re-imagining these frameworks.
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.
Upcoming special issues
2026/2027
Special issue on the topic of
Big tech in global security governance
News and Opinion Pieces
As metaverse rhetoric accelerates, the definitions shaping governance policy are severing it from decades of empirical evidence on how virtual communities actually govern themselves.
Digital sovereignty is vague, or even fragmented, but that is not a defect to be disciplined.
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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not peer reviewed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
Freedom of the media must evolve beyond institutional protection to safeguard citizens’ epistemic agency in digital societies where platforms and AI systems shape what we know and how we participate in democracy.
Further Research Articles
This paper explores whether the EU’s platform governance framework, designed for non-immersive social media platforms, is fit to safeguard copyright’s fair balance and promote robust democratic discourse in immersive virtual public spaces.
This work discusses the emerging concept of the metaverse from a lens of interoperability. By drawing on literature from the political economy of digital platforms, varieties of capitalism, and cybergovernance it proposes a framework based on openness and closure as well as security and economic interests to illustrate four models based on examples from the infrastructure layer comprising metaverse technologies.
How will the experience of the criminal trial change when the courtroom moves into the metaverse?
When the metaverse distributes authority across states, platforms, protocols, and communities simultaneously, the only viable response is a governance framework that allocates functions across all four layers rather than insisting, against the evidence, that any single actor holds the reins.
The big tech companies are poised to establish early positions of dominance in the emerging XR economy. We offer a novel layer model of the emerging XR economy to support regulatory interventions that target structural sources of power.