Drawing on cutting-edge social media research, the authors explain why vetted researchers need to be granted broad access to social media data to meet the objectives of the DSA.

The concept of the "superplatform" presents a simple way to describe Google’s vast and complex online ad business as a dual-core system that merges market power, infrastructural dominance, and supply chain demarketisation.

This article examines the applicability of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to ChatGPT, arguing that it should be classified as a hybrid of the two types of hosting services: online search engines and platforms.

In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of regulated data access under the European Digital Services Act for election research.

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.

This article explores working conditions in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and proposes mechanisms for DAOs to become more equitable workplaces, aligned with the solidarity economy.

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.

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.

The Drivers Cooperative reveals how diverging stakeholders in platform cooperatives can fracture in their pursuit of developing these platforms.

This study reveals how conventional digital platforms hinder worker collectives, and how engineering, reimagined through solidarity, can build cooperative alternatives from the ground up.