Governments around the world pressure internet companies to get informally what they cannot obtain through formal regulatory channels, a pervasive mechanism of governance that challenges fundamental democratic priors.
Research Articles
About
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
Research articles
- In-depth scholarly research papers and essays
Concepts
- Critical reflections on emerging core concepts of the digital society
Editorials
- Contextual or thematic introductions to special issues
Essays
- Free-form yet in-depth contentions with issues of academic or social relevance
News
- Journalistic reports on events of interest to the Internet Policy Review community
Opinions
- Opinion pieces commenting on developments in the realm of internet policy
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- Extended abstracts for works in progress that receive public peer review
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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.
Call for papers
Abstract submission deadline: 15 Oct 2025
News and Opinion Pieces
The EU Platform Work Directive confronts Member States with highly heterogeneous institutional starting points, making generalisable implementation strategies difficult. This op-ed discusses the German case as a potential model for extending platform regulation beyond status-based approaches within the European context.
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.
Formats in our Journal
- 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not peer reviewed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
Concepts and Glossary terms
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
The clash between law power and code power in the controversy over Meta’s “pay or okay model”.
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.
The Drivers Cooperative reveals how diverging stakeholders in platform cooperatives can fracture in their pursuit of developing these platforms.
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.
This article shows how Latin American experience is an essential reference for why free culture principles are essential to the idea and the concept of the digital 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.