Public discourse

Protecting the global digital information ecosystem: a practical initiative

Ingolf Pernice, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
PUBLISHED ON: 05 Mar 2019

Introduction The digitisation of our societies comes along with a number of challenges and opportunities - the dimension of which are far from being assessed, not to say understood. While the internet allowing easy access of everybody to the general political discourse was for some time understood as a great opportunity for strengthening democracy

Data protection

Legal battle over online behavioural advertising widening

Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon Foundation
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jan 2019

Polish digital rights organisation Panoptykon Foundation filed complaints against Google and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Responses were fired quickly. Here's the reaction to the responses.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Dream of Californication: welcome to the Californian Consumer Privacy Act

Josephine Williams, University of Amsterdam
Kristina Irion, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Oct 2018

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA ), slated to enter into force on 1 January 2020, borrows some cutting edge ideas from the EU and others’ privacy regimes while also experimenting with new approaches to data privacy. Importantly, the CCPA envisages an online advertisement market in which business are prevented from “ getting high on

Open access

Quality control on a high level is the key – A Q&A with Christina Riesenweber

Christina Riesenweber, Freie Universität Berlin
PUBLISHED ON: 10 Oct 2018

Christina, you’ve been an editor at an open access journal yourself and are now spearheading open access at Freie Universität Berlin. We have a candid and naive question for you: what does open access mean in 2018? I think that in 2018 it is pretty obvious that we’re not discussing whether open access is the way to go, but rather how we can ensure

Internet governance

Internet policy politics - A Q&A with Marianne Franklin

Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths University of London
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Sep 2018

Marianne Franklin is Professor of Global Media & Politics, convenor of the MA in Global Media and Transnational Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. We interviewed her in advance of the five year anniversary celebration of our journal. Internet Policy Review: Marianne, you have been following the work of Internet Policy Review

Internet access

Remembering Mustafa Akgül

PhD Melih Kırlıdoğ, North-West University
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Dec 2017

Mustafa Akgül of Bilkent University passed away on 13 December 2017 after a long battle with cancer. Commonly regarded as the "father of the internet in Turkey," he was one of the most important figures in establishing the first internet connection in Turkey on 12 April 1993.

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