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.
Research articles on GOVERNANCE
The paper proposes a human rights-based approach to regulating the algorithmic determinants of health evident in online platform food advertising.
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.
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.
How do India and the EU regulate metaverse interoperability? This paper offers a side-by-side legal analysis with practical policy mandates.
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.
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.
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 article explores how political fear operates as an infrastructural mechanism within digital platforms, reconfiguring democratic communication through algorithmic amplification, emotional governance, and regulatory gaps.