News and Research articles on Inter-governmental

Turkey

From repressing digital content to repressing people

Anita R. Gohdes, University of Zurich

PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jul 2016

Turkey's strategy of repressing opposing voices in the aftermath of the failed coup of 15 July 2016 has transformed from surveilling perceived enemies and repressing specific digital content to arresting and silencing anyone who has been classified as a threat to Erdoğan's position of power.

Volume 5, Issue 2

Regulating the sharing economy Regulating the sharing economy

Kristofer Erickson, University of Glasgow / CREATe
Inge Sørensen, University of Glasgow
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.414

This special issue on 'Regulating the sharing economy' includes five papers and an editorial which each contribute to knowledge by linking the social and economic aspects of sharing economy practices to regulatory norms and mechanisms.

KEYWORDS: Sharing economy, Peer-to-peer (P2P), Crowd-sharing
Volume 5, Issue 2

Defining the relevant market in the sharing economy

Francesco Russo, University of Amsterdam
Maria Luisa Stasi, European University Institute
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.418

Sharing economy businesses open up new markets and bring about new regulatory challenges. These could be solved with traditional competition instruments, although adapted to the peculiar features of the sharing economy, including, among others, multi-sidedness and the presence of different externalities.

KEYWORDS: Business models, Pricing, Sharing economy
Volume 5, Issue 2

Sharing killed the AVMSD star: the impossibility of European audiovisual media regulation in the era of the sharing economy

Indrek Ibrus, Tallinn University
Ulrike Rohn, Tallinn University
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.419

The convergence of media markets and the emergence of video-sharing platforms may make the existing regulative tradition obsolete. This essay demonstrates an emergent need for regulatory convergence on European Union’s Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD).

KEYWORDS: Audiovisual media, Sharing economy, Video-sharing
Constitutionalism

Multilevel constitutionalism and e-democracy

Ingolf Pernice, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

PUBLISHED ON: 4 May 2016

As a scholar of constitutional law, of European and international law, having along the way gathered some knowledge of the workings of the internet, I am happy to present some perhaps somewhat revolutionary thoughts about governing in the future. The issue I was asked to deal with was: Governing the 21st century. Here are my thoughts about it.

Volume 5, Issue 1

Should we worry about filter bubbles?

Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, University of Amsterdam
Damian Trilling, University of Amsterdam
Judith Möller, University of Amsterdam
Balázs Bodó, University of Amsterdam
Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.1.401

Personalised news websites can have serious implications for democracy, but little is known about the extent and effects of personalisation.

KEYWORDS: Filter bubble, Personalisation, Selective exposure
Volume 4, Issue 4

The Brazilian approach to internet intermediary liability: blueprint for a global regime?

Nicolo Zingales, Tilburg University
PUBLISHED ON: 28 Dec 2015 DOI: 10.14763/2015.4.395

While intermediary liability is becoming an issue of increasing importance in internet governance discussions, little is being made at the institutional level to minimise conflicts across jurisdictions and ensure the compliance of intermediary liability laws with fundamental rights and the freedom to innovate.

KEYWORDS: Intermediary liability, Internet governance, Marco Civil da Internet
Volume 4, Issue 2

Data control and digital regulatory space(s): towards a new European approach

Roxana Radu, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Jean-Marie Chenou, University of Lausanne
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2015 DOI: 10.14763/2015.2.370

This article examines the stance of the European Union vis-à-vis internet services company Google in two controversial instances: the ‘right to be forgotten’ and the implementation of EU competition rules.

KEYWORDS: Intermediary liability, Regulatory shifts, Digital monopoly, Right to be forgotten, E-commerce, Data protection, Taxation, Antitrust, Privacy
Intermediary liability

Jurisdiction on the net

Monika Ermert, Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten

PUBLISHED ON: 5 Jun 2015

During this year's European dialogue on internet governance (EuroDIG 2015), we take a look at the baby steps towards a solution to jurisdiction disputes in cyberspace.

Data protection

Trust needs control

Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon Foundation

PUBLISHED ON: 28 May 2015

Privacy means control over our personal data... and human rights lawyer Katarzyna Szymielewicz explains why this matters when it comes to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation.