Tag: platform governance
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Lab member Dennis Redeker at UN Internet Governance Forum 2025
PGMT Lab member Dr. Dennis Redeker attended the United Nation’s Internet Governance Forum 2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway and presented research results and other outputs from research conducted at ZeMKI at the University of Bremen. Among other activities, Dennis gave two talks and (co-)organized three sessions on the program of the annual UN conference. One presentation…
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ZeMKI media and communication students part of Erasmus+ BIP held in Salerno
From May 26 to 30, 2025, the third edition of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) organized by the Digital Constitutionalism Network took place in Salerno, Italy. Entitled “Digital Constitutionalism and Digital Sovereignty: Navigating Power and Rights in the Digital Age”, this international teaching program followed on successful BIP editions in Padua (2023) and at…
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PGMT Lab member taught at SWING 2025, Salerno
Dr. Dennis Redeker has been invited to teach at the Salerno Winter School on Internet Governance (SWING) in March 2025. Joining Internet and platform governance experts from around Europe, Dennis delivered a lecture and participated in a discussion on how the UN system deals with global challenges of governing digital technologies. In his contribution, he…
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New publication by Paloma Viejo Otero and Rebecca Scharlach
“We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety” Paloma Viejo Otero and Rebecca ScharlachMarch 20, 2025 We are happy to announce that our lab members Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach published their new paper “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety” in…
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PGMT Lab hosts YUFE partners to develop teaching program
On 2 and 3 December 2024, the “Perspectives on Platform Governance” workshop took place between researchers from four YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) partner universities at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen, Germany. Hosted by the Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab at ZeMKI, University of Bremen, and funded by the State…
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PGMT Lab at 10th ECREA conference in Ljubljana
We are going to ECREA at the University of Ljubljana from September 24-27, 2024. The 10th european communication conference runs under the topic of communication and social (dis)order.
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Will the arrest of Telegram’s CEO in France have implications for platform regulation, in the EU and elsewhere?
The arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and owner, has sent shockwaves through Telegram’s user base and concerns about the current state of platform regulation in France, the EU, and globally.
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New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich as well as the Humboldt University of Berlin; Emma Hoes, K. Jonathan Klüser, Felix Hamborg, Meysam Alizadeh, Mael Kubli and Led by Nahema Marchal: “How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance”.
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PGMT member gives public lecture on platform regulation
On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI and PGMT lab member spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the “Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)” lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. The public lecture in the Olbers Hall, entitled “Against hate, censorship and disinformation – challenges and solutions…
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PGA starts tracking Threads, Bluesky and Truth Social
The Platform Governance Archive (PGA) is expanding its scope to track the policy changes of three new social media platforms: Threads, Bluesky, and Truth Social. The initiative aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics and governance of these emerging platforms. Threads is an online social media and networking service launched on July 5,…