Article 18 of the European Media Freedom Act presents a paradox: instead of mitigating platforms’ power over media freedom, it risks institutionalising and reinforcing it by allowing them to shape the regulation’s implementation.
The article shows how EU regulatory approaches to AI align with Silicon Valley technosolutionist imaginaries.
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.
Can community-based policing and the ‘Court of Twitter’ achieve individual notions of justice related to allegations of abuse on Twitch?
This article explores how political fear operates as an infrastructural mechanism within digital platforms, reconfiguring democratic communication through algorithmic amplification, emotional governance, and regulatory gaps.
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.
Political participatory platforms may look similar but, in practice, they redistribute power in very different ways. This article introduces a three-dimensional cube to compare their political governance, software affordances, and infrastructural dependencies, using cases from Italy, Spain, Argentina and Taiwan to show how specific sociotechnical configurations shape the effects of online political participation.
This paper examines how algorithmic personalisation shapes electoral perceptions through the filter bubble phenomenon, using a multidimensional measurement tool applied to Romanian Facebook users.
This paper examines which combinations of factors contribute to internet regulatory agencies' informal autonomy from corporate interests, building on a qualitative comparative analysis and interviews with senior officials.
Baby-tracking apps promise to help parents, this reveals how baby-tracking apps transform intimate caregiving into a site of cross-border data extraction, profiling, and policy non-compliance.