Regulating disinformation and big tech in the EU: a research agenda on the institutional strategies, public spheres and analytical challenges
The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the instit...
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ftuamadrid:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/712121 2024-05-19T07:42:52+00:00 Regulating disinformation and big tech in the EU: a research agenda on the institutional strategies, public spheres and analytical challenges Bouza Garcia, Luis Oleart, Álvaro UAM. Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales 2024-04-17T13:06:56Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10486/712121 https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13548 eng eng Wiley Journal of Common Market Studies https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13548 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101061330 JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies (2023): 23 Oct 2023 0021-9886 (print) 1468-5965 (online) http://hdl.handle.net/10486/712121 doi:10.1111/jcms.13548 © 2023 The Authors Reconocimiento – NoComercial – SinObraDerivada openAccess Big Tech disinformation European Union public policy public sphere Derecho Política article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2024 ftuamadrid https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13548 2024-04-30T23:34:58Z The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere that such strategies imply, and the analytical challenges to undertake this line of inquiry. We argue that there is an emerging competition in the EU field of disinformation – constructed by actors coming from different pre-existing fields, such as journalism or foreign policy – not only to define what is ‘true’ from what is ‘fake’, but also to determine the sort of the public sphere and democracy we ought to strive for. This perspective allows us to anticipate which actors might be empowered (or disempowered) depending on how disinformation is addressed in regulatory terms Both co-authors are part of the Horizon Europe project ‘Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in Europe’ (RECLAIM) (Grant agreement: 101061330), funded by the European Union and led by the University of Iceland, which addresses the implications of the challenge of post-truth politics for the future of liberal democracy in Europe Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM): Biblos-e Archivo JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies |
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The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere that such strategies imply, and the analytical challenges to undertake this line of inquiry. We argue that there is an emerging competition in the EU field of disinformation – constructed by actors coming from different pre-existing fields, such as journalism or foreign policy – not only to define what is ‘true’ from what is ‘fake’, but also to determine the sort of the public sphere and democracy we ought to strive for. This perspective allows us to anticipate which actors might be empowered (or disempowered) depending on how disinformation is addressed in regulatory terms Both co-authors are part of the Horizon Europe project ‘Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in Europe’ (RECLAIM) (Grant agreement: 101061330), funded by the European Union and led by the University of Iceland, which addresses the implications of the challenge of post-truth politics for the future of liberal democracy in Europe |
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Regulating disinformation and big tech in the EU: a research agenda on the institutional strategies, public spheres and analytical challenges |
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