By Charis Papaevangelou The previous decade saw the rise of technology giants, so-called “Big Tech”; along with them rose the responsibilities they carried and the critical voices demanding scrutiny and better accountability. One of the ways that Big Tech companies and, in particular, social media platforms have been trying to fend off regulation is through […]
Category: The Civic Role of User-Generated Content
The Civic Role of User-Generated Content will look at the ways in which public problems can emerge through user-generated content, how best ways to integrate
comments so as not to cause media rejection and how content could be classified according to their willingness to intervene in the definition of public problems.
Open Research Europe: the existential stakes of platform governance
Today we look at the process of publishing peer-reviewed research through ESR’s Charis Papaevangelou first solo authored papered, with a debate on the political economy of digital platforms. […]
Why (my) research matters: Charis Papaevengelou
Our ESRs try to answer the hardest question that plagues a PhD: why their research matters. And mostly, why you should care about it. Today, we look at the work of Charis Papaevengelou. […]
France, Australia, Silicon Valley, and the Political Economy of Online Platform Regulation
By Charis Papaevangelou Two recent developments concerning the online distribution of news revealed the shortcomings of platform regulation. The first development was when French publishers (General Information Press Alliance or APIG, an industry association of daily press companies, national and regional) struck a deal with Google meant to reimburse them for the use of their […]
Digital Services Act, Brussels Effect and the Future of the Internet
By Charis Papaevangelou, ESR at University of Toulouse III The Brussels Effect is an interesting concept coined in 2012 by Ana Bradford, a Finnish-American professor at the Columbia Law School. The gist of the concept is this: Europe may not be an economic or innovatory stronghold comparable to the United States or China, but it […]