Digital Constitutionalism Network

Networks over organizations: An infrastructural revolution for digital rights The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda.

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

Un anuncio de la segunda edición de la Conferencia Europea sobre Digitalización Democrática y Derechos Digitales. Se llevará a cabo en Barcelona el 28 de octubre de 2025. El diseño incluye el número "4D" en colores degradados vibrantes, junto con el texto en español que detalla el evento y su enfoque en los derechos digitales y la soberanía digital. Se invita a guardar la fecha.

✨ 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/

Non-Resident fellows graphic.

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/

Beyond her research, Joanna has served on ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, helped shape the Oxford Process on international law protections in cyberspace, and contributed to the UN’s work on ICT misuse. Find out more about her work here: lnkd.in/ei3wjtiv

#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: zemki-futures@uni-bremen.de

You can find out more about the conference speakers from across Italy, Great Britain, Luxembourg/Germany, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the USA, and Austria here: www.linkedin.com/company/ai4i....

📢 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...

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

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: 👇

Visual for the call for papers entitled: "Inclusive by Design? Participatory Governance and the Future of Digital Public Spaces"

#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...

Economic Security and EU Trade Policy | DELI

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...

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

"Bluesky: growing status as social media platform of choice for world’s scientists...

...more engagement and original scrutiny than on X"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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.

Photo by Inés Álvarez Fdez on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/fr/photos/personne-faisant-de-la-planche-a-roulettes-S82kPZPS8eM

[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 On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well | TechPolicy.Press In the seminal essay, Barbrook and Cameron insisted that there are other ways to build technology, and to do it democratically, writes Nathan Schneider.

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?

Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts 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.

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

Prof Alan Smeaton

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