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.
This paper examines which combinations of factors contribute to internet regulatory agencies' informal autonomy from corporate interests, building on a qualitative comparative analysis and interviews with senior officials.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.