[Commlist] Digital Platform Policy Spring: Promises and Trajectories for Digital Platform Regulation

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 
you to join an excellent group of media and communications scholars for 
a two day conference: Digital Platform Policy Spring? Promises and 
Trajectories for Digital Platform Regulation 
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/>. 
This workshop brings 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.

Non-presenting participants can *register with this link before 13 
October 2023* 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoGG6rzIAiJISutCVE7FGuJYuhzZBoRtT664PNENEBlt8anQ/viewform 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoGG6rzIAiJISutCVE7FGuJYuhzZBoRtT664PNENEBlt8anQ/viewform>. 
(after registration payment instructions will be sent) The participation 
fee includes the dinner on Thursday, 2 November:

70 € for PhD candidates, faculty staff and employees of non-academic 
organisations

30 € for BA/MA students and people affiliated to institutions of “soft 
currency countries” as defined by ECREA

The programme of accepted presentations is below:

Programme

Wednesday, 1 November

16:00

Pre-conference programme: Sound of Music

Thursday, 2 November, Edmundsburg

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome and opening

9:15 – 10:15

Keynote speech by Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam)

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00

Panel 1: Digital Platform Regulation in Europe

The impact of digital platforms on inequalities and disparities: a 
legal-empirical analysis of the European measures (Gergely Ferenc Lendvai)

The Digital Services Act and challenges for freedom of expression (Jens 
Pohlmann)

Dominant platforms as challenges for regulation policy in Europe (Werner 
Meier and Josef Trappel)

Same play, different actors: what does it mean for digital platforms to 
be gatekeepers in the public sphere (Blanca Basanta, Ana Azurmendi and 
Carles Llorens)

12:00 – 13:00

Panel 2: Public Interest Content I

Safeguarding news content on online platforms: addressing the 
incoherencies between the regulatory approaches (Lidia Dutkiewicz)

The great reset: news organisations’ efforts to regain (opinion) power, 
break dependency, and form a “counterpower” (Theresa Seipp, Natali 
Helberger, Jef Ausloos and Claes de Vreese)

Public sphere governance in times of platformization: taking a 
comprehensive perspective on the production and dissemination of content 
across intermediaries (Manuel Puppis, Stefano Pedrazzi, Sabrina Heiland 
and Michelle Kulig)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:15

Panel 3: Media Ownership and Concentration

Comparing initiatives that monitor and assess media diversity in light 
of (online) media ownership concentration: towards a harmonized 
assessment framework (Heritiana Ranaivoson and Adelaida Afilipoaie)

 From media concentration law to holistic regulation of media power: a 
threat-oriented approach to promoting media diversity (Pascal 
Schneiders, Daniel Stegmann and Birgit Stark)

Media ownership transparency and control: Europe’s recent policy 
activism (Josef Trappel and Tales Tomaz)

 From media ownership to content control: media autonomy and 
concentration in the EU’s digital and media policy (Iva Nenadic and 
Marijana Grbeša-Zenzerović)

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 – 17:00

Panel 4: Public Interest Content II

Media pluralism online: exploring new safeguards for PSM content 
delivery (Krisztina Rozgonyi)

Implementing due prominence in Flanders: an analysis of stakeholder 
views (Tim Raats and Adelaida Afilipoaie)

Public broadcasters as digital intermediaries: the adoption of ATSC 3.0 
in the United States (Christopher Ali and Sydney Forde)

A capabilities framework for developing digital platform policy (Amit 
Schejter and Baruch Shomron)

19:00

Dinner (Stadtalm, walk from 18:30)

Friday, 3 November, Edmundsburg

9:00 – 10:15

Panel 5: Harmful Content

An appropriate response to online hate speech? An evaluation of the 
Digital Services Act (Pascal Schneiders)

Evidence-based regulation of disinformation on online platforms (Rita 
Gsenger)

Online governance against misinformation in decentralized social media 
(Johannes Bennke)

Conceptualising and assessing ‘systemic risk’ to freedom of expression 
and civic discourse from very large online platforms (Sally Broughton 
Micova and Andrea Calef)

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 11:45

Panel 6: Digital Platform Regulation in Latin America

Rethinking regulatory approaches: the case of PL2630 in Brazil (Fernando 
Horta)

Why no market power in Brazilian platform regulation (Tales Tomaz)

Platform regulation in the Global South: proposals from Latin American 
organizations (Sheley Gomes and Paulo Victor Purificação Melo)

11:45 – 12:45

Panel 7: Algorithms and Recommender Systems

Datasets as a condition for the development of diversity-aware 
recommender systems (M. Z. van Drunen and S. Vrijenhoek)

Algorithms, epistemic wellbeing and epistemic welfare: a new framework 
to understand governance of recommender systems (Aaron Hyzen, Michelle 
Kulig, Steve Paulussen, Manuel Puppis and Hilde Van den Bulck)

The Digital Services Act’s opaque view on algorithms (Paulo Ferreira and 
Luís António Santos)

12:45 – 13:00

Closing

13:00

Sandwich-Lunch and Farewell

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