Research articles on GOVERNANCE

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.

As a civic tech community-driven fact-checking initiative, Taiwan’s Cofacts platform exemplifies how digital solidarity economy (DSE) concepts can be enacted in the practice of false information governance, while its practical challenges offer a generative space for expanding, deepening, and pluralising theoretical understandings of DSE.

This study examines how a government-led mobility platform in South Korea, framed as a cooperative digital solidarity project, faltered due to socio-technical misalignments, opaque governance, and limited community control.

The clash between law power and code power in the controversy over Meta’s “pay or okay model”.

This paper proposes a voluntary user badge that rewards commitment to civic norms in digital platform communication with increased visibility, aiming to enhance discourse quality and restructure attention distribution.

This article explores how interdisciplinary methods for evidence collection can be envisioned through a case study examining research and regulatory initiatives against dark patterns.

The common call for researchers to simply “translate” sociotechnical insights into policy overlooks the complex dynamics of policymaking. Using two case studies, the article shows how meaningful relationships, not just translation, are key to embedding sociotechnical research in AI governance.

This paper explores how the Digital Services Act’s Transparency Database enables platform observability, revealing critical insights into the practices of content moderation across the EU.

Looking at the nature of AI technology and the contents of the EU AI Act, the external impact of the Act is better understood in terms of experimentalist governance than in terms of the much-cited ‘Brussels effect’.