The article analyses how the Digital Services Act can be used to counter mental harms associated with using social media, including addiction, attention depletion, anxiety, and depression.
Research Articles
About
Internet Policy Review is an open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.
Scholars, regulators, journalists, activists, and other stakeholders publish in the journal in
Research articles
- In-depth scholarly research papers and essays
Concepts
- Critical reflections on emerging core concepts of the digital society
Editorials
- Contextual or thematic introductions to special issues
Essays
- Free-form yet in-depth contentions with issues of academic or social relevance
News
- Journalistic reports on events of interest to the Internet Policy Review community
Opinions
- Opinion pieces commenting on developments in the realm of internet policy
Open Abstract
- Extended abstracts for works in progress that receive public peer review
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not peer reviewed
Recent Special issues
Content moderation encompasses a great diversity of actors who develop specific practices. Their precise contribution to the democratisation of content regulation, and to the balance between public and private interests in platform governance, remains little studied. This special issue is an attempt at remedying this.
By opening the craft of interdisciplinary method to more explicit scrutiny, this special issue provides a novel space to examine how knowledge in the domains of cybersecurity, privacy, and digital rights governance is made, contested, and reshaped.
Call for papers
Abstract submission deadline: 15 Oct 2025
News and Opinion Pieces
Often invisible amid the noisy proclamations of leaders from large states and big tech firms, representatives of small states have nonetheless powerfully shaped EU digital politics.
Thinking of health data governance through an intersectional lens will help to achieve equitable health outcomes.
Formats in our Journal
- Research articlesIn-depth scholarly research papers and essays
- ConceptsCritical reflections on emerging core concepts of the digital society
- EditorialsContextual or thematic introductions to special issues
peer reviewed
not peer reviewed
- EssaysFree-form yet in-depth contentions with issues of academic or social relevance
- NewsJournalistic reports on events of interest to the Internet Policy Review community
- OpinionsOpinion pieces commenting on developments in the realm of internet policy
Concepts and Glossary terms
Special Sections
Two special sections of Internet Policy Review
How does resistance evolve under the pressure of datafication? People adopt defensive and productive tactics to resist the harms and risks of a data-driven society.
Further Research Articles
Young Europeans respond differently to data harms: perceived adverse consequences to oneself lead to resignation from individual control while perceived adverse consequences for democracy motivate support for both personal and regulatory protections.
This paper proposes a voluntary user badge that rewards commitment to civic norms in digital platform communication with increased visibility, aiming to enhance discourse quality and restructure attention distribution.
In this article, we performed a scoping review and argue that mixed or multi-method designs can better support collaboration when thoughtfully applied. However, indiscriminately combining methods without clear justification—the so-called ‘kitchen sink’ approach—risks overcomplicating research agendas and diluting their insights.
Building flexible tools to approach law for interdisciplinary requirements extraction in software engineering.
Colliding ideas from art and digital technology law to bridge disciplinary silos and generate learning impact.
This article demonstrates the need for much more than a “computing plus” approach to truly realise the potential of interdisciplinary cybersecurity and privacy research.
