This paper introduces a new understanding of compliance and develops the concept of ‘strategic compliance narratives’ to capture how different platforms adapt different regulatory requirements in ways that merely satisfy formal obligations, while influencing user experience, regulatory legitimacy, and public trust.
This article offers an analyses of how the environmental impact of internet infrastructure is discussed within the IETF, arguing that sustainability becomes a justification regime for the internet's existence and growth in a world in crisis.
The paper proposes a human rights-based approach to regulating the algorithmic determinants of health evident in online platform food advertising.
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.
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.
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.
This paper offers insight into digital agriculture for platform studies scholars and shows how sectors that are not based around information goods resist disruption by enabling incumbents to entrench power through digital platforms.
Has cybersecurity disclosure changed after 2022?