[Commlist] Workshop CFP Digital Platform Policy Spring

*2023 Joint Workshop of the ECREA “Communication Law and Policy” Section 
and Jean Monnet Network EuromediApp*

Digital Platform Policy Spring?

Promises and Trajectories for Digital Platform Regulation


  Call for Papers

The “Communication Law and Policy” Section of the European 
Communications Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the Jean 
Monnet Network “European Media and Platform Policy” (EuromediApp) invite 
abstracts for theoretical and empirical papers on the topic /Digital 
Platform Policy Spring? Promises and Trajectories for Digital Platform 
Regulation 
<https://euromediapp.org/call-for-papers/2023-ecrea-communication-law-and-policy-workshop/>/. 
This workshop will be a unique opportunity to bring together those 
investigating the processes of regulating media and digital 
intermediaries in Europe and beyond. The workshop will take place in 
*Salzburg*, Austria, on *2-3 November 2023*. It is hosted by the 
Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg.

Digital platforms and intermediaries are increasingly disseminating news 
and structuring news consumption across the globe. They have become 
crucial spaces of civic discourse and cultural expression. Unique levels 
of ownership concentration in the hands of few extremely large 
industrial conglomerates dominate digital media landscapes. Checks and 
balances from media and telecommunication policy do not apply to these 
new players, enabling digital platforms and intermediaries to exercise 
unprecedented power in various ways.

While implicitly accepting or even fostering media ownership 
concentration, European institutions have lately recognized the various 
challenges for media freedom, freedom of expression and the quality of 
news created by digital platforms and intermediaries. Digital Markets 
Act (DMA), Digital Services Act (DSA) and European Media Freedom Act 
(EMFA) address such challenges. These European initiatives also have a 
geopolitical dimension, shaping and being shaped by developments in 
other rich countries and in the Global South. This workshop is dedicated 
to discussing the nature of such challenges and the appropriateness of 
policy solutions offered by the European Commission, national 
governments from around the globe or national and international 
regulatory bodies.

Thus, the workshop invites interdisciplinary contributions interested in 
digital platform policy, regulation and policy implementation. We 
welcome submissions from political economy, policy and governance 
studies, media and communication law, and other approaches and fields. 
We welcome theoretical, methodological and empirical submissions, case 
studies and comparative work. Innovative use of methods is encouraged. 
The organizers are especially interested in the following areas, in 
particular in the intersection between European and non-European 
problems and solutions:

▪/Digital intermediaries and media ownership concentration:/What are the 
implications of ownership concentration on freedoms, news organizations, 
content, dissemination of news, and the public discourse at large? How 
do current policy developments such as the Anti-Money Laundering 
Directive affect platform and media ownership transparency? /Editorial 
independence in the digital platform environment:/ How far, and how, do 
digital platforms affect editorial independence of incumbent newsroom 
structures?

▪/Quality of content and combat of misinformation:/What is the economics 
of high-quality content in the digital environment? How are policy 
interventions seeking to fund quality content, and with what implications?

▪/Public interest content in digital intermediaries:/How are platforms 
dealing with prominence and discoverability of content? Which legal 
measures can be put in place to ensure that public service media and 
further public-oriented content remain visible in digital 
intermediaries, including devices such as smart TVs?

▪/Inequalities and disparities:/How do digital platforms and 
intermediaries contribute to increase or diminish inequalities and 
disparities in the field of communication? How effective are policy 
measures to combat such inequalities and disparities?

▪/Inclusion: /How can digital platforms engage marginalized and 
diasporic communities towards more inclusion? What are the links between 
technological infrastructure, innovative business models and inclusive 
media practices aimed at fostering justice and participation?

Abstracts of *no more than 300 words* should be submitted for blind peer 
review in DOCX or ODT directly to the organizers of the conference *by 
Friday, June 9, 2023*

*(contact /at/ euromediapp.org)*

/Each abstract should address one of the above topics in a sound 
theoretical and methodological manner, and include a title as well as 
the name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) of the 
author(s)./The colleagues will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 
2023, and registration is required by September 30, 2023.

Full papers might be invited after the workshop for publication. 
Participation fee will be minimal and a reduced fee for ECREA-recognized 
“soft-currency” countries and non-waged participants is possible for 
accepted submitters. More information will be available in due time on 
the ECREA CLP and EuromediApp websites. 
https://euromediapp.org/call-for-papers/2023-ecrea-communication-law-and-policy-workshop/ 
<https://euromediapp.org/call-for-papers/2023-ecrea-communication-law-and-policy-workshop/> 


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