Alvaro Oleart

🎧 Do you want to be part of a live #podcast recording? 👉 This Friday, host @alvarooleart.bsky.social will record the final episode of the podcast "Post-truth be told" at the RECLAIM Final Conference, exploring the challenges facing journalists today‼️

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⏰ You are still on time to REGISTER for our conference on the dangers of post-truth politics‼️

Join us on 27 June in Brussels for the final event of the #RECLAIM project, featuring interactive panel discussions & a live podcast recording of "Post-truth be told"🎙️

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#RegisterNOW for the final conference of the #RECLAIM project 🎯 focusing on post-truth politics‼️

Join us on 27 June for interactive discussions on the challenges posed by #disinformation 📣 And don't miss our live podcast recording of "Post-truth be told!" 🎙️

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Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media?

Join us next Friday, May 16, 3pm at the VU Amsterdam to discuss Nick Couldry's new book "The Space of the World"

with the amazing @couldrynick.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social, Pascal Koenig and Fieke Jansen!

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The Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol welcomes you to the seminar:

"The European Semester Pre- & Post-Next Generation EU"

With Igor Guardiancich (University of Padova)

Thursday the 8th of May at 12:00

Kant Room
F.D Roosevelt Av., 39
1050 Bxl

Curious to know more about this topic? 🧐

📖 Read our latest RECLAIM infographic on regulating #disinformation & Big Tech👉Based on a publication by @alvarooleart.bsky.social & @luisbouzagarcia.bsky.social

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Check out this cool video by @tepsa.bsky.social based on the paper that @juliarone.bsky.social and I recently published about reversing the privatisation of the public sphere - you can read the full paper here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) What can the EU do about online disinformation? | TEPSA Animated Explainer

💻What can the EU do about online #disinformation? 👉Check out our new RECLAIM Animated Explainer!

Based on "Reversing the privatisation of the public sphere: Democratic alternatives to the EU's regulation of disinformation", by @alvarooleart.bsky.social & Julia Rone

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🧐 How can the EU combat #disinformation while preserving democratic values? ➡️ Check out our latest #infographic on the #RECLAIM publication "Regulating disinformation and Big Tech in the EU", by @luisbouzagarcia.bsky.social & @alvarooleart.bsky.social

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Merci beaucoup Céleste, aussi pour tes commentaires à Lyon :) J’espère qu’on se voit bientôt!

📸 Pictures from the #ActEU Youth Democracy Lab in Brussels! ➡️ TEPSA met with #ULB students to explore the challenges facing #democracies & discuss recommendations for policy-makers

👏Thanks @alvarooleart.bsky.social for moderating the discussion!

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Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation | Article | Media and Communication Alvaro Oleart, Julia Rone

[OUT] 'Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation', new paper by @alvarooleart.bsky.social, FNRS postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) in collab with Julia Rone, in Media and Communication
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This coming out as we are about to discuss a policy brief on the disenclosure of the public sphere. Great reading on the new roads the EU should walk to address tech giants.

Thanks a lot for sharing! I think it might be particularly relevant for @celestebny.bsky.social ;) Also @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

CC @gorwa.ca, @europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu, @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @rachelgriffin.bsky.social, @techwontsave.us, @euobserver.com, @pjleerssen.bsky.social, @marietjeschaake.bsky.social, @corporateeurope.bsky.social, @cdteu.bsky.social, @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social, @giuliasandri.bsky.social

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

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

📄New publication by our member @alvarooleart.bsky.social, with @juliarone.bsky.social on a very topical subject: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation”, check it out 👇👇

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone (and follow her on Bluesky!) & I published today in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation” 👇

Basically, we argue that the EU regulates a lot but it's mainly regulations that miss the mark - they are both bureaucratically burdensome and completely inadequate to challenge the business power of Big Tech, since the latter has been deeply involved in the regulatory process itself.

First post on Bsky after a very successful detox from social media.
Paradoxically, a post on our paper with @alvarooleart.bsky.social on how the EU failed to invest in alternatives and why it *did not* become a normative leader in regulating Tech.
Out today:
www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!

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Applications due: 2 May 2025

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#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

Vous y retrouverez des spécialistes de la Commission et des politiques de l'UE : @fredericmerand.bsky.social, @pierrealayrac.bsky.social, Amandine Crespy, Véronique Dimier, @alvarooleart.bsky.social et @samuelbhfaure.bsky.social !

Parlons Commission - les institutions européennes en questions Tous les mois, Lola Avril, docteure en science politique, discute avec un·e...

Envie de mieux comprendre la Commission européenne avec les sciences sociales ? A la recherche de matériaux de cours sur les institutions de l'UE ? Retrouvez les épisodes du Podcast "Parlons Commission" de notre membre @lolaavril.bsky.social sur @euradio.bsky.social 👇
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Breaking News: Journalism is in Crisis (Again) Post Truth be told · Episode

The 5th episode of RECLAIM's project podcast is out. @lucasproto.bsky.social discusses the latest crisis of journalism with academics and journalists. The key issue as I see it is which kind of mediations with truth can journalism (re-)establish. open.spotify.com/episode/2avG...