Álvaro Oleart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4152080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Álvaro Oleart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Álvaro |
| FAMILY NAME | Oleart |
| SIGNATURE | OLEART Á |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9696-4298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Why the EU’s Technosolutionist Focus on AI and Media ‘Literacy’ Empowers Big Tech: Centering Structural Approaches to Counter the Undemocratic Political Economy of Surveillance Capitalism
The emergence of digital technologies during the last two decades has placed strain on democracies globally. From disinformation to artificial intelligence (AI), policy-makers have struggled to address the authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies that Big Tech companies have been pushing. A dominant response from European Union (EU) policy-makers has been to promote ‘literacy’: media literacy to address disinformation, and ‘AI literacy’ to fo…
The Dehumanization of Palestinians by European Commission President von der Leyen: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
The unconditional support of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Israel following the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 2023, and Israel’s ensuing genocidal aggression on Palestine, contrasts with the support she gave to Ukraine following the 2022 Russian intervention. Drawing on a decolonial feminist perspective, guided by the work of Palestinian feminists, the article develops a discourse analysis of von der Leyen’s speeches on R…
Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Technology has recently entered the scene of deliberative democracy, both as a subject of deliberation and as a way to improve deliberative processes. The hegemonic position in this debate appears to be that, while it is not a bulletproof solution, technology holds the potential to make deliberative democracy better. The article takes stock of the latest developments in…
Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation
The emergence of social media companies, and the spread of disinformation as a result of their “surveillance capitalist” business model, has opened wide political and regulatory debates across the globe. The EU has often positioned itself as a normative leader and standard-setter, and has increasingly attempted to assert its sovereignty in relation to social media platforms. In the first part of this article, we argue that the EU has achieved nei…
How the EU Counters Disinformation: Journalistic and Regulatory Responses
Social media companies have strengthened their power—both discursive and political—during the last decade, a process that has disrupted the public spheres, contributing to shaping the way in which public discourse unfolds. In this process, it has empowered anti-democratic domestic and foreign actors, and challenged the business model of traditional media companies, substantially changing journalistic practices. This process has led policy-makers …
From self to co-regulation in the EU’s approach to disinformation: The framing power of Big Tech business lobbies in the lead to the Digital Services Act
The increasing political power of social media companies over the last two decades has sparked significant policy debates in the EU. We analyse the emerging regulatory struggle by focusing on one specific dimension: disinformation. The most influential initiative took place within the Digital Services Act (DSA), approved in 2022. This approach, characterised as ‘co-regulation’, breaks away from the EU’s previously dominant approach of self-regula…
Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence
Over the last decade, the use of deliberative mini-publics as a democratic innovation to complement policymaking has flourished. The EU is no exception to this trend, holding large-scale transnational exercises such as the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) and the European Citizens’ Panels. Digital technology has emerged as a topic in this type of participatory exercise, conducted alongside prolific public policy activity by the EU insti…
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
Why social movements struggle to change the EU: The ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25
Social movement scholarship has emphasized that progressive ‘Europeanization from below’ may be a breeding ground for major EU reform and democratization. Empirically, however, activists have found it difficult to make gains when targeting the EU. To understand the challenges that activists face in the context of transnational EU mobilization, our article draws from agency-oriented approaches in social movement studies to propose an ‘EU mobilizat…
Intersectionality, #MeToo, and the Mainstream Media: The New York Times ’ Problematic Framing of the Blasey Ford/Kavanaugh and Reade/Biden Sexual Assault Allegations
This article asks: How did The New York Times' opinion section frame the sexual assault allegations of Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh compared to Tara Reade's against Joe Biden? Through a framing analysis, it compares The New York Times' opinion coverage of Blasey Ford's allegations in 2018 with Reade's allegations in 2020, both of which took place in the context of the #MeToo movement. We show that the first case frames sexual vio…
Democracy and pluralism after European integration: Incorporating the contested character of the EU
Recent years have seen multiple controversies between the EU and its member states that revolve around different conceptions of what kind of polity the EU is, and what it should be. These controversies are particularly heated when fundamental democratic values are at stake. In this article, we address the fundamental tension between the assertion of common EU values and the pluralistic character of the EU polity, both among and within member stat…
The Colonial Imaginary of ‘Europe’ in the EU's Asymmetrical Response to the Russian and Israeli Aggressions: Ukraine as a Member of the ‘Family’ Whilst ‘Othering’ Palestine
What is ‘Europe’? The response to this question is not straightforward, as ‘Europe’ is a floating signifier that is in constant renegotiation. In this article, we focus on the imaginary of ‘Europe’ that has been deployed in the most salient international crises of the last years that have heavily shaken European Union (EU) politics: the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the attack of Hamas on 7 October 2023, followed by the ensuing…
Why EU democratic theory needs a decolonial turn: Racism, colonialism and the ‘we’ of democracy
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: The geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors
There is a growing body of research on the leading role of radical and populist parties to situate ‘sovereignty’ as an increasingly central element of political discourse. However, there is much less said about the response of pro-EU actors, and how they can accommodate, modify, or reject the notion of ‘sovereignty’. The article begins with the following research question: what role does ‘European sovereignty’ play in the legitimation strategies …
Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges
The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere that such strategies imply, and the analytica…
Civil society coalitions in the EU media regulation: When Field Theory Meets Network Analysis
The field of Eurocracy has increasingly been shaped by the emergence of actors lobbying on the area of digital regulation, which has heavily increased during the Von der Leyen Commission. We study the extra-institutional actor networks that have been involved in the EU digital policy formulation, and hypothesise that beyond clearly visible networks of opposition, the subjacent social structure of discourse networks was dominated by Big Tech. We d…
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: Disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe
The EU has recently organised a series of ‘citizen-centred’ processes that may be indicative of a new pattern in terms of democracy and participation. The article begins with this observation in order to pose the following question: to what extent the introduction of ‘citizen participation’ mechanisms in the Conference on the Future of Europe reflects a rupture with the EU’s dominant understanding of democracy? While there are innovative elements…
La «intergubernamentalidad» neoliberal y la politización de la UE: La Transformación De Los Campos Políticos Nacionales Y Los Nuevos Europeísmos
La década de 2010, iniciada con la crisis financiera, continuada con la de los refugiados y culminada con la del coronavirus en 2020, ha consolidado los enfoques teóricos en torno al campo político europeo como algo más que un entorno diplomático en el que gobiernos nacionales negocian políticas comunes. Sin embargo, la crisis del coronavirus ha dado lugar a una respuesta más rápida y decisiva que las anteriores, movilizando una cantidad de recur…
Democracy without Politics’ in the European Commission's Response to Democratic Backsliding: From Technocratic Legalism to Democratic Pluralism
The debate on EU responses to democratic backsliding in EU member states has mostly been anchored on technocratic appeals to the rule of law and judicial independence, and on Poland and Hungary. In this article, we ask: What understandings of democracy have shaped the European Commission's response to democratic backsliding in recent years? After developing an understanding of pluralist democracy, we uncover the way in which the European Commissi…
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments
Research on national parliaments in the EU has greatly expanded since the Treaty of Lisbon fully recognized their role in providing democratic legitimacy for EU decision‐making. However, the direct interaction between national parliaments and the European Commission has received little academic attention. This research note seeks to frame a research agenda that explores whether, and under which conditions, the Commission visits to national parlia…
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU: The Future of Europe Debates Before and After the 2019 Elections
Executive gladiators in the European arena: Discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan
As the politicization of European integration is channeled through the media, it fundamentally implies a discursive power distribution between actors and institutions based on who and what type of argument is promoted. Scholars have started to hypothesize who will benefit from this expansion of debates to wider publics, predominantly using media logics to conclude with the notion of ‘discursive intergovernmentalism’: where media spotlights enter,…
Parties in the ‘twilight zone’: Beyond first and second-order elections for the 2019 European Parliament elections in Spain
While most research has analysed election-orderness by looking at electoral behaviour, this article looks instead at political parties and political programs in the case of the Spanish 2019 European elections. With the collapse of its two-party system and challenger parties on the rise, this paper analyses how Spanish parties addressed topics in their political programs, using content and political discourse analysis. The article argues that the …
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU: The Future of Europe Debates Before and after the 2019 Elections
Democracy at Stake: Multipositional Actors and Politicization in the EU Civil Society Field
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) has the potential to significantly change the dynamics of interaction between EU institutions and civil society, which we conceive as a field. This article analyzes how the EU civil society field has been re‐shaped by the ECI, the creation of networks and relationships between EU and national organizations and the effects of politicization. Using interview data and online documents from five ECI cases, we a…
Democracy without Politics’ in the European Commission's Response to Democratic Backsliding: From Technocratic Legalism to Democratic Pluralism
The debate on EU responses to democratic backsliding in EU member states has mostly been anchored on technocratic appeals to the rule of law and judicial independence, and on Poland and Hungary. In this article, we ask: What understandings of democracy have shaped the European Commission's response to democratic backsliding in recent years? After developing an understanding of pluralist democracy, we uncover the way in which the European Commissi…
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: The geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors
There is a growing body of research on the leading role of radical and populist parties to situate ‘sovereignty’ as an increasingly central element of political discourse. However, there is much less said about the response of pro-EU actors, and how they can accommodate, modify, or reject the notion of ‘sovereignty’. The article begins with the following research question: what role does ‘European sovereignty’ play in the legitimation strategies …
Framing TTIP in the wake of the Greenpeace leaks: Agonistic and deliberative perspectives on frame resonance and communicative power
Although never conceived as a tool of direct democracy, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) raised hopes that it would involve citizens more directly in EU decision making. Previous research has suggested that one contribution of the ECI is its effect on fostering public deliberation on EU issues, raising questions about the ECI’s potential as a tool for social movements to generate communicative power in relation to EU issues. This article d…
From the 2005 Constitution’s ‘Permissive Consensus’ To TTIP’s ‘Empowering Dissensus’: The EU as a Playing Field for Spanish Civil Society
The negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) saw the development of a transnational campaign that gained momentum as the negotiations reached a critical status, including in Spain. The Spanish anti-TTIP campaign is interesting in that it has gained some salience among media, civil society, trade unions and some political parties in a country where trade and EU affairs are rarely controversial. In order to explain …
The Colonial Imaginary of ‘Europe’ in the EU's Asymmetrical Response to the Russian and Israeli Aggressions: Ukraine as a Member of the ‘Family’ Whilst ‘Othering’ Palestine
What is ‘Europe’? The response to this question is not straightforward, as ‘Europe’ is a floating signifier that is in constant renegotiation. In this article, we focus on the imaginary of ‘Europe’ that has been deployed in the most salient international crises of the last years that have heavily shaken European Union (EU) politics: the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the attack of Hamas on 7 October 2023, followed by the ensuing…
Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges
The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere that such strategies imply, and the analytica…
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: Disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe
The EU has recently organised a series of ‘citizen-centred’ processes that may be indicative of a new pattern in terms of democracy and participation. The article begins with this observation in order to pose the following question: to what extent the introduction of ‘citizen participation’ mechanisms in the Conference on the Future of Europe reflects a rupture with the EU’s dominant understanding of democracy? While there are innovative elements…
Executive gladiators in the European arena: Discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan
As the politicization of European integration is channeled through the media, it fundamentally implies a discursive power distribution between actors and institutions based on who and what type of argument is promoted. Scholars have started to hypothesize who will benefit from this expansion of debates to wider publics, predominantly using media logics to conclude with the notion of ‘discursive intergovernmentalism’: where media spotlights enter,…
Democracy and pluralism after European integration: Incorporating the contested character of the EU
Recent years have seen multiple controversies between the EU and its member states that revolve around different conceptions of what kind of polity the EU is, and what it should be. These controversies are particularly heated when fundamental democratic values are at stake. In this article, we address the fundamental tension between the assertion of common EU values and the pluralistic character of the EU polity, both among and within member stat…
Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence
Over the last decade, the use of deliberative mini-publics as a democratic innovation to complement policymaking has flourished. The EU is no exception to this trend, holding large-scale transnational exercises such as the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) and the European Citizens’ Panels. Digital technology has emerged as a topic in this type of participatory exercise, conducted alongside prolific public policy activity by the EU insti…
Civil society coalitions in the EU media regulation: When Field Theory Meets Network Analysis
The field of Eurocracy has increasingly been shaped by the emergence of actors lobbying on the area of digital regulation, which has heavily increased during the Von der Leyen Commission. We study the extra-institutional actor networks that have been involved in the EU digital policy formulation, and hypothesise that beyond clearly visible networks of opposition, the subjacent social structure of discourse networks was dominated by Big Tech. We d…
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments
Research on national parliaments in the EU has greatly expanded since the Treaty of Lisbon fully recognized their role in providing democratic legitimacy for EU decision‐making. However, the direct interaction between national parliaments and the European Commission has received little academic attention. This research note seeks to frame a research agenda that explores whether, and under which conditions, the Commission visits to national parlia…
Introduction to the Special Issue
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
From the 2005 Constitution’s ‘Permissive Consensus’ To TTIP’s ‘Empowering Dissensus’: The EU as a Playing Field for Spanish Civil Society
The negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) saw the development of a transnational campaign that gained momentum as the negotiations reached a critical status, including in Spain. The Spanish anti-TTIP campaign is interesting in that it has gained some salience among media, civil society, trade unions and some political parties in a country where trade and EU affairs are rarely controversial. In order to explain …
Democracy at Stake: Multipositional Actors and Politicization in the EU Civil Society Field
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) has the potential to significantly change the dynamics of interaction between EU institutions and civil society, which we conceive as a field. This article analyzes how the EU civil society field has been re‐shaped by the ECI, the creation of networks and relationships between EU and national organizations and the effects of politicization. Using interview data and online documents from five ECI cases, we a…
Framing EU trade policy online: The case of @NoAlTTIP on Twitter
Since the argumentative turn in EU studies, research has shown that civil society activists can challenge frames promoted by EU institutions and incumbent groups, and influence public opinion in the EU. However, most studies of civil society mobilisation on EU issues have focused on the vertical framing of issues from Brussels to national capitals, rarely analysing mobilisation beyond Brussels. This article builds upon ongoing research on Spanish…
Actores Europeos y Desinformación: La disputa entre el factchecking, las agendas alternativas y la geopolítica
The Brexit referendum is a good example of the particular vulnerability of the European project when fighting disinformation. Therefore, EU institutions have developed a series of initiatives throughout 2018 to define a European strategy to counter disinformation that emphasizes the responsibility of social networks in reporting false content. In addition, given the weakness of the European public sphere, the European institutions support the cre…
Framing EU trade policy online: The case of @NoAlTTIP on Twitter
Since the argumentative turn in EU studies, research has shown that civil society activists can challenge frames promoted by EU institutions and incumbent groups, and influence public opinion in the EU. However, most studies of civil society mobilisation on EU issues have focused on the vertical framing of issues from Brussels to national capitals, rarely analysing mobilisation beyond Brussels. This article builds upon ongoing research on Spanish…
Framing TTIP in the wake of the Greenpeace leaks: Agonistic and deliberative perspectives on frame resonance and communicative power
Although never conceived as a tool of direct democracy, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) raised hopes that it would involve citizens more directly in EU decision making. Previous research has suggested that one contribution of the ECI is its effect on fostering public deliberation on EU issues, raising questions about the ECI’s potential as a tool for social movements to generate communicative power in relation to EU issues. This article d…
La lutte narrative pour la signification et la politisation de « l’Europe » dans les négociations du TTIP: Le récit de l’Europe bouclier contre le populisme transnational
Les études européennes connaissent actuellement un tournant narratif (Biegoń, 2013 ; Bouza Garcia, 2017). Le débat académique commence à tenir compte de l’importance des représentations socioculturelles de l’Union européenne pour comprendre les attitudes des citoyens et de la société civile envers l’UE, et de l’utilisation de stratégies narratives par les acteurs politiques de l’UE. Afin de contribuer à analyser la manière dont l’Europe est racon…
Introduction to the Special Issue
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Introduction to the Special Issue
Parties in the ‘twilight zone’: Beyond first and second-order elections for the 2019 European Parliament elections in Spain
While most research has analysed election-orderness by looking at electoral behaviour, this article looks instead at political parties and political programs in the case of the Spanish 2019 European elections. With the collapse of its two-party system and challenger parties on the rise, this paper analyses how Spanish parties addressed topics in their political programs, using content and political discourse analysis. The article argues that the …
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU: The Future of Europe Debates Before and after the 2019 Elections
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU: The Future of Europe Debates Before and After the 2019 Elections
Executive gladiators in the European arena: Discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan
As the politicization of European integration is channeled through the media, it fundamentally implies a discursive power distribution between actors and institutions based on who and what type of argument is promoted. Scholars have started to hypothesize who will benefit from this expansion of debates to wider publics, predominantly using media logics to conclude with the notion of ‘discursive intergovernmentalism’: where media spotlights enter,…
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: Disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe
The EU has recently organised a series of ‘citizen-centred’ processes that may be indicative of a new pattern in terms of democracy and participation. The article begins with this observation in order to pose the following question: to what extent the introduction of ‘citizen participation’ mechanisms in the Conference on the Future of Europe reflects a rupture with the EU’s dominant understanding of democracy? While there are innovative elements…
La «intergubernamentalidad» neoliberal y la politización de la UE: La Transformación De Los Campos Políticos Nacionales Y Los Nuevos Europeísmos
La década de 2010, iniciada con la crisis financiera, continuada con la de los refugiados y culminada con la del coronavirus en 2020, ha consolidado los enfoques teóricos en torno al campo político europeo como algo más que un entorno diplomático en el que gobiernos nacionales negocian políticas comunes. Sin embargo, la crisis del coronavirus ha dado lugar a una respuesta más rápida y decisiva que las anteriores, movilizando una cantidad de recur…
Democracy without Politics’ in the European Commission's Response to Democratic Backsliding: From Technocratic Legalism to Democratic Pluralism
The debate on EU responses to democratic backsliding in EU member states has mostly been anchored on technocratic appeals to the rule of law and judicial independence, and on Poland and Hungary. In this article, we ask: What understandings of democracy have shaped the European Commission's response to democratic backsliding in recent years? After developing an understanding of pluralist democracy, we uncover the way in which the European Commissi…
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments
Research on national parliaments in the EU has greatly expanded since the Treaty of Lisbon fully recognized their role in providing democratic legitimacy for EU decision‐making. However, the direct interaction between national parliaments and the European Commission has received little academic attention. This research note seeks to frame a research agenda that explores whether, and under which conditions, the Commission visits to national parlia…
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: The geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors
There is a growing body of research on the leading role of radical and populist parties to situate ‘sovereignty’ as an increasingly central element of political discourse. However, there is much less said about the response of pro-EU actors, and how they can accommodate, modify, or reject the notion of ‘sovereignty’. The article begins with the following research question: what role does ‘European sovereignty’ play in the legitimation strategies …
Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges
The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere that such strategies imply, and the analytica…
Civil society coalitions in the EU media regulation: When Field Theory Meets Network Analysis
The field of Eurocracy has increasingly been shaped by the emergence of actors lobbying on the area of digital regulation, which has heavily increased during the Von der Leyen Commission. We study the extra-institutional actor networks that have been involved in the EU digital policy formulation, and hypothesise that beyond clearly visible networks of opposition, the subjacent social structure of discourse networks was dominated by Big Tech. We d…
Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Technology has recently entered the scene of deliberative democracy, both as a subject of deliberation and as a way to improve deliberative processes. The hegemonic position in this debate appears to be that, while it is not a bulletproof solution, technology holds the potential to make deliberative democracy better. The article takes stock of the latest developments in…
Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation
The emergence of social media companies, and the spread of disinformation as a result of their “surveillance capitalist” business model, has opened wide political and regulatory debates across the globe. The EU has often positioned itself as a normative leader and standard-setter, and has increasingly attempted to assert its sovereignty in relation to social media platforms. In the first part of this article, we argue that the EU has achieved nei…
How the EU Counters Disinformation: Journalistic and Regulatory Responses
Social media companies have strengthened their power—both discursive and political—during the last decade, a process that has disrupted the public spheres, contributing to shaping the way in which public discourse unfolds. In this process, it has empowered anti-democratic domestic and foreign actors, and challenged the business model of traditional media companies, substantially changing journalistic practices. This process has led policy-makers …
From self to co-regulation in the EU’s approach to disinformation: The framing power of Big Tech business lobbies in the lead to the Digital Services Act
The increasing political power of social media companies over the last two decades has sparked significant policy debates in the EU. We analyse the emerging regulatory struggle by focusing on one specific dimension: disinformation. The most influential initiative took place within the Digital Services Act (DSA), approved in 2022. This approach, characterised as ‘co-regulation’, breaks away from the EU’s previously dominant approach of self-regula…
Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence
Over the last decade, the use of deliberative mini-publics as a democratic innovation to complement policymaking has flourished. The EU is no exception to this trend, holding large-scale transnational exercises such as the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) and the European Citizens’ Panels. Digital technology has emerged as a topic in this type of participatory exercise, conducted alongside prolific public policy activity by the EU insti…
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