News and Research articles on Knowledge society

Volume 14, Issue 3

How the new digital knowledge order is impacting science

Donya Alinejad, Utrecht University
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2031

To develop a response to what the new digital knowledge order means for science and scholarship, we need research and policy that focuses on the multiple ways platform power shapes academic knowledge production and communication.

KEYWORDS: Knowledge society, Digital platforms, Disinformation, Digital knowledge order, Epistemic power
Volume 2, Issue 2

WSIS+10: the self-praising feast of multi-stakeholderism in internet governance

Francesca Musiani, MINES ParisTech
PUBLISHED ON: 12 Apr 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.2.121

Ten years after the first World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS+10 was held in February 2013 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Internet governance scholar Francesca Musiani attended and reports back with a critical assessment of the “multi-stakeholder” approach to global governance of information and communication technologies.

KEYWORDS: Internet governance, WSIS+10, Internet Governance Forum (IGF), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Knowledge society, Multi-stakeholderism
Open access

Wikimedia and the (political) meaning of free knowledge

Nikolas Becker, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)

PUBLISHED ON: 2 Apr 2013

In Europe, education and free knowledge are subject to political restrictions that can only be effectively changed on the EU level. Wikimedia, the not-for-profit organisation behind the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, believes this. The organisation could therefore soon open an office in Brussels to participate in the future debates about a European knowledge society. Nikolas Becker is a member of the board of Wikimedia Germany. Using three concise examples, he explains why and where he sees need for action.