My book 'Democracy Without Politics in EU Citizen Participation: From European Demoi to Decolonial Multitude' is out with @Palgrave! It is hopefully a timely contribution to scholar and political debates on ‘citizen participation’ and decolonisation. Here:

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Check out this cool video by @tepsaeu based on the paper that Julia Rone and I recently published about reversing the privatisation of the public sphere - you can read the full paper here:

RT @tepsaeu: 💻How can the EU fight against online #disinformation? 👉Check out our new Animated Explainer in collaboration with @RECLAIM_HEU….

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RT @RECLAIM_HEU: 💬 What can the EU do about online disinformation?.⚖️ How can it regulate Big Tech platforms?.🌐 And how can it reclaim the….

RT @RECLAIM_HEU: 🔎 Check out this #TepsaInfographic for RECLAIM based on the @JCMS_EU article "Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in th….

RT @NKovalcikova: 🧐Highly interesting NEW ANALYSIS on "Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere" by @AlvaroOleart and Julia Rone 👇👇….

@JorgeTunonMAD @luisbouzagarcia @RECLAIM_HEU CC @tepsaeu, @s_lehuede,@BenCrumNL, @Ugur_Aytac,@SciencePoULB,@francesca_bria, @rgorwa,@parismarx,@grohmann_rafael,@c_hoeffler, @X_net_,@james_muldoon_,@AObendiek,@Timo_Seidl, @LR_Parks, @ecanrog, @dcruzf,@rociosavas, @HansJoergTrenz,@jrochg_uoc,@HaapalaTaru, @IEE_Bruxelles.

The paper is part of the special issue “Protecting Democracy From Fake News: The EU’s Role in Countering Disinformation” co-edited by @JorgeTunonMAD, @luisbouzagarcia and myself, and is part of the broader Horizon project @RECLAIM_HEU.

Our main point is that combatting disinformation is just one aspect of the broader task of democratizing technology and the public sphere. This is not simply a technical or legal question. Rather, it requires to rethink the way in which the private relates to the public.

(d) searching for alternatives across the technological stack; (e) non‐exploitative and transparent content moderation; and (f) sustainable public funding that makes this possible and contributes to reversing structural inequalities.

(a) a commitment to secure a space for public communication oriented towards the public good rather than profit; (b) a democratic decision‐making process surrounding the design and governance of alternatives; (c) plurality (c1) and interoperability (c2) across alternatives.

We outline a set of priorities to imagine alternatives to current social media monopolies and discuss what could be the EU’s role in fostering them. Rather than a one‐size‐fits‐all alternative to corporate platforms, there should be multiple alternatives following six principles:.

This is the result of the EU increasingly “outsourcing” regulation of disinformation to corporate platforms. If disinformation is not simply a “bug” in the system, but a feature of profit‐driven platforms, public–private cooperation is part of the problem rather than a solution.

EU regulation of disinformation has focused on technocratic changes that do not address the root cause of the problem: the business model of social media companies. It is a form of fundamentally misguided regulations that miss the mark & tackle the symptoms rather than the causes.

The EU has positioned itself as a normative leader and standard‐setter regarding disinformation, & has increasingly attempted to assert its sovereignty in relation to social media platforms. However, we argue that the EU has achieved neither sovereignty nor normative leadership.

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone & I published today in @CogitatioMaC: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation”:

RT @HaapalaTaru: Brand new published research of the Horizon Europe project @RECLAIM_HEU by myself and @jrochg_uoc in the special issue by….

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