Hear from Susan Lechelt and Neelima Sailaja about their experiences of talking to young people about the environmental sustainability of digital technologies, including building repairability into the Internet of Things, and sustainable computing education. 13 May, 14:00 luma.com/1x25i9m1

Registration is open for the 10th #GIGARTS Conference! 🗓 14-15 May 2026 📍 @dublincityuni.bsky.social 🎓 Reduced fees available for students More info: gig-arts.eu/dublin-2026/ Registration: lnkd.in/dp4ikZan

The 2026 #DCN Blended-Intensive Programme has officially begun! Yesterday, ~ 30 students from 6 partner universities kicked-off their three months journey of learning about the environmental, social and governance implications of digital technologies. The goal: for them to develop policy solutions!

“Strengthening electoral integrity in the digital age requires moving beyond reactive, crisis-driven responses and investing in sustained governance frameworks.” @claraigk.bsky.social spoke with us about the study “Current Challenges in Digital Elections:” www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

🎉 Thank you, UPEC, for a fantastic cooperation seminar! A huge thank you to all speakers, participants, and especially our colleagues at UPEC for hosting such a high-quality and collaborative event. We look forward to many more opportunities to work together! #EMILDAI #UPEC #EPILDAI

We were delighted to see EMILDAI Programme Chair Edoardo Celeste take part as a speaker in the recent event “Navigating the AI Horizon: Key Highlights and Insights”, a timely and engaging discussion on AI, governance, and business transformation. #EMILDAI #AIandLaw #ResponsibleAI #DigitalGovernance

Last week, EMILDAI co-hosted a two-day event bringing together judges, scholars, and experts to explore how courts are responding to the challenges of data-driven technologies and artificial intelligence. 👉 Read the full recap here: emildai.eu/the-gavel-an... #EMILDAI #AIandLaw #JudicialAI

🆕 New on the Comparative Digital Law Blog: “Tales of Digital Sovereignty and Child Online Safety: Von der Leyen’s State of the Union Address.” Karolin Rippich & Victor Henriquez Diaz discuss what the 2025 address means for EU digital governance. 🔗 lawandtech.ie/tales-of-dig...

Dennis Redeker @redeker.bsky.social von der @unibremen.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social stellt das Lehrprojekt „Digital Constitutionalism and the UN Global Digital Compact" vor: 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/digital... #DVPWBlog #Lehrpreis

Very glad to have contributed to this collective effort of the #UN #InternetGovernanceForum Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance Coalition, with a chapter titled: "The Blind Watcher: Accountability Mechanisms in the #ArtificialIntelligenceAct". link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Please help share this vacancy for a 4-year postdoc in Disinformation and European Democracy at Maastricht University #Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky

EU Big Tech law - EU Commission opens investigations under Digital Markets Act into cloud computing, including Amazon and Microsoft - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

🌐 Save the date! GIG-ARTS 2026 will take place in Dublin (14–15 May 2026), hosted by Dublin City University. Theme: “Digital Futures, Sustainable Freedoms: Rights, Responsibilities and Governance.” More info 👉 gig-arts.eu/2025/10/01/s... #InternetGovernance #DigitalLaw #TechPolicy #GIGARTS2026

Exciting news! Our 2024 BIP on “Digital Constitutionalism & the UN Global Digital Compact” was just named a runner-up for the 2025 DVPW Teaching Prize in Political Science 🏆 Find out more about the prize (lnkd.in/eaZB2GZm) and our BIP (lnkd.in/eNPi_w6z).

…an diesem Lehrprojekt beteiligt waren auch: Claudia Padovani, Andrea Pettrachin @andreapettrachin.bsky.social, Edoardo Celeste, Mauro Santaniello @msantaniello.bsky.social, Marianne Franklin, Tomoe Watashiba & Dr. Nicola Palladino @nicolapalladino.bsky.social und das @digiconstnetwork.bsky.social

Do you want to apply under DSA40? PGMT and MMM are hosting a workshop on Nov 26 (15:00–18:00) to help researchers prepare stronger Article 40 applications. Funding available for participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Email [email protected] by Nov 18 for registration and details.

The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda. Great piece by @claudioruiz.com

✨ Countdown starts: in 1 month our #4DCongress takes over Barcelona with #DigitalRights at the centre 🚀 📅 Oct 28, Barcelona 🎟️ Free entry but seats are limited → register now! 👉 Organised by @X_net_ @accentobert_ 🔗 4d.cat/en/conference/

APPLY: Applications for CDT’s 2026 cohort of Fellows are open. The deadline to apply is Monday, October 6. CDT’s Fellows program is an opportunity for academics to engage directly with + inform our policy work and represents a wide range of academic fields & disciplines: cdt.org/about/fellows/

#MeetTheNetwork – Steering Committee Series Say hello to Dr Joanna Kulesza, Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Łódź and Director of the Lodz Cyber Hub (www.cyber.uni.lodz.pl), where she researches how international law applies in cyberspace.

Over half of McGregor's presidential campaign posts on X filled with false claims and threats. A report from @edmoireland.bsky.social and DCU has found that his rhetoric, amplified by Elon Musk, normalised misinformation during his bid. Read more in @thejournal.ie: launch.dcu.ie/46nUi2j

🔍📊 Looking back to look forward: We visualized key terms from ZeMKI Research Reports 2011 & 2024. The shift is clear: from media literacy to AI and digital gaming. Join the conversation at the ZeMKI Anniversary Conference! 📅 22.–24. Oct 2025, Bremen 📧 Register: [email protected]

📢 DCN member Dariia Opryshko is organising the upcoming AI4IA European Regional Conference, happening online on 23 September. The conference features panels on AI and information consumption, Common European data spaces & synthetic data. Registration is possible via: forms.gle/H7vfWL4kZMxx...

And a reminder that _Algorithms of Resistance_ is fully #openaccess, so can be read by anyone, right now(!): direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Honored to have chaired the Panel “Institutionalizing #Cybersecurity in the #EU: A Distinctive Approach?” at #SISP2025 in Naples, hosted by Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. More on presentations and discussants at: www.sisp.it/wp-content/u...

From 1/12–12/12/2025, the University of Paris-Est Créteil will host the 4th edition of la Quinzaine du droit du numérique. UPEC is offering research scholarships through the EPILDAI Network! 👉 Learn more and apply here: emildai.eu/call-for-app... #EMILDAI #EPILDAI #Research

join us for the 4th session of our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series on Sept. 29th, 11AM, EDT. we are eager to host two brilliant keynote speakers, Paz Peña (Mozilla Foundation) and Tamara Kneese (Data & Society), who will discuss the social and environmental impacts of technocapitalism. more info: 👇

#CallForPapers: Inclusive by Design? Participatory Governance & the Future of Digital Public Spaces. Researchers are invited to explore digital public spaces, participation, inclusion & power. Abstracts: Oct 15,2025 | Full papers: Mar 1,2026 policyreview.info/events/call-... @hiigberlin.bsky.social

Honored to have been invited as a speaker at CAISspecial: #Value-Based #Research on #DigitalTransformation on September 3, 2025, organized by @cais-research.bsky.social A heartfelt thank-you to CAIS for the invitation and to all participants for such a rich and thought-provoking dialogue.

#CfP: Inclusive by design? Special issue on #participatory governance & the future of #digital public spaces! Edited by @jottbees.bsky.social @marco-waehner.bsky.social Christiane Eilders & Tim A. Majchrzak. @cais-research.bsky.social 👉 Submit abstract by 15 Oct: policyreview.info/events/call-...

Who is Really Fueling your #AI? Join us on September 17 to discuss precarization and resistance in #datawork, with the @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social. Don't miss your chance to meet some of the shadow workforce behind AI. buff.ly/dHMHXPV

AI policy debates in Brazil: struggles over regulation, governance and labour. New article in the journal Global Political Economy Authors: Rafael Grohmann, Edemilson Paraná, Jonas CL Valente and Roseli Figaro Link: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

How is EU trade policy shifting toward economic security amid US challenges to the multilateral system? Join us at DCU (and online) on 11 Sept, 2–4pm for “Economic Security and EU Trade Policy”. Keynote: Phil Hogan, followed by a panel discussion. Register here: www.dcu.ie/deli/dcu-eve...

Excited to have discussed my paper " #GlobalGovernance of #AI: #Neoliberal, #DigitalSovereigntist, and #DigitalConstitutionalism Models in the #EU, #US, and #China” at the 18th EISA Pan-European Conference on #InternationalRelations (PEC 2025) last week.

[New paper] Brussels effect or experimentalism? The EU AI Act and global standard-setting, By @vuamsterdam.bsky.social's @bencrum.nl policyreview.info/articles/ana... #AIAct #EU #BrusselsEffect

Thirty years ago, this week, an article diagnosing the "Californian Ideology" of Silicon Valley was published. This scathing critique has become a badge of honor for the new tech right. As I argue today in Tech Policy Press, it has never been more relevant: www.techpolicy.press/thirty-years...

Honored to have served as a discussant at the 18th EISA Pan-European Conference on #InternationalRelations (PEC 2025) in #Bologna, for the panel “Entangling International Relations & #Quantum Technologies”. Grateful to @paultimmers.bsky.social (chair) for organizing and leading the session!

Come and join us in the third webinar of our Gender and Tech Online Talk Series - this time to discuss platform governance from an intersectional perspective with the amazing Julie Owono and Coleen Carrigan. More details below! See you there?

The International Journal of Communication is launching a Special Section on The Imaginative Landscape of AI: Visions, Positions, Conflicts. Submissions that empirically explore emerging imaginaries, ideological positions, and conflicts surrounding AI are invited.

Who is really fueling your #AI? 🤔 It's not just code & algorithms. Behind every LLM are millions of people, often in invisible roles. Join us, @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & on Sept. 17 to hear directly from data workers! 🔗 buff.ly/2ug32Bx

What is AI’s current capabilities? Does it live up to the hype? And how can it be used in everyday scenarios? Prof Alan Smeaton, Emeritus Professor @dcucomputing.bsky.social, joins @adrianweckler.bsky.social on this week’s episode of The Big Tech Show @independent.ie. Listen: launch.dcu.ie/4mt59i5

DCU's Dr Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com and Ciarán O'Connor @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social explore the anxiety about whether we are in a bubble - and what might happen if it pops in the latest episode of their podcast 'Enough About AI'. You can listen to the full episode here: launch.dcu.ie/41lYspI

1/ 🧵 #MeetTheNetwork Meet Dr Jens Pohlmann, a #DCN member and Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at @ucdavis.bsky.social. Jens studies platform governance, freedom of expression, and digital sovereignty, adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary focus.

Registration for the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) Summit 2025 is now open. Join us in Brussels on 13 October to discuss media resilience, economic viability, journalists’ safety, legal protection, AI governance, and the implementation of EU safeguards. www.mfrr.eu/mfrr-summit-...

🚨Calling all digital markets scholars!🚨 We invite original research on #DMA enforcement for our 3rd DMA Enforcement Symposium in Brussels (20-21 Nov 2025). Explore overlooked themes, enforcement gaps, global perspectives & more. Deadline July 30! #DigitalMarketsAct #TechRegulation #CallForPapers

🔗https://www.cais-research.de/event/caisspecial-value-based-research-on-digital-transformation/

📢 #CAISspecial: @nicolapalladino.bsky.social (Universität Salerno) & @katschwerzmann.bsky.social (@kwi-essen.bsky.social) discuss the need for ethical, value-based approaches in research on digital transformation. 🗓 September 3 ⏰ 4–5 PM CET 📍CAIS Bochum & online