This article finds that in Estonia's internet voting, trust stems from actual use and experience, while distrust stems from political reasons.

How will the experience of the criminal trial change when the courtroom moves into the metaverse?

The big tech companies are poised to establish early positions of dominance in the emerging XR economy. We offer a novel layer model of the emerging XR economy to support regulatory interventions that target structural sources of power.

When the metaverse distributes authority across states, platforms, protocols, and communities simultaneously, the only viable response is a governance framework that allocates functions across all four layers rather than insisting, against the evidence, that any single actor holds the reins.

Avatarobots, synthetic majorities and the struggle for democratic agency in the metaverse.

This work discusses the emerging concept of the metaverse from a lens of interoperability. By drawing on literature from the political economy of digital platforms, varieties of capitalism, and cybergovernance it proposes a framework based on openness and closure as well as security and economic interests to illustrate four models based on examples from the infrastructure layer comprising metaverse technologies.

Plans for the metaverse are threatening to move us out of market capitalism into a technofeudal order – liberal market governance is no longer a sufficient regulatory response.

How do India and the EU regulate metaverse interoperability? This paper offers a side-by-side legal analysis with practical policy mandates.

This paper explores whether the EU’s platform governance framework, designed for non-immersive social media platforms, is fit to safeguard copyright’s fair balance and promote robust democratic discourse in immersive virtual public spaces.

Can community-based policing and the ‘Court of Twitter’ achieve individual notions of justice related to allegations of abuse on Twitch?