This paper explores how the Digital Services Act’s Transparency Database enables platform observability, revealing critical insights into the practices of content moderation across the EU.
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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.
As the debate on public interest AI is still a young and emerging one, we see this special issue as a way to help establish this field and its community by bringing together interdisciplinary positions and approaches.
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Abstract submission deadline: 15 Oct 2025
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China is recasting artificial intelligence as a tool of infrastructure diplomacy, a strategic shift that confronts the innovation-led paradigm and navigates the risks of fragmented global governance.
Europe is losing its war on poverty because it is ignoring the new front: digital poverty.
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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not peer reviewed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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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.
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Looking at the nature of AI technology and the contents of the EU AI Act, the external impact of the Act is better understood in terms of experimentalist governance than in terms of the much-cited ‘Brussels effect’.
To develop a response to what the new digital knowledge order means for science and scholarship, we need research and policy that focuses on the multiple ways platform power shapes academic knowledge production and communication.
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