Numerous empirical studies indicate that social media use is correlated with, and sometimes might be causing, mental harms like addiction, anxiety and depression, or lowering of cognitive abilities. In 2023, the European Parliament called on the European Commission to introduce new rules to...

This essay examines Iran's most extensive internet disruption since 2022, imposed during the June 2025 conflict with Israel, when missile strikes quickly evolved into coordinated cyberattacks on banking, radar, and communications systems. Drawing from direct experience during the blackout, it...

This study examines the willingness to pay (WTP) for fully-simulated virtual reality (VR) concerts. The results indicate that the intention to purchase (IP) concert tickets is strongly influenced by payment attitudes, followed by perceived behavioral control (PBC) and subjective norms (SN)....

Digital businesses continue to grow and generate substantial revenue in market jurisdictions without maintaining a physical presence. They mainly rely on intangibles, user data and user engagement. International tax rules have not kept pace with these developments, leaving many jurisdictions...

The modern digital public sphere requires effective content moderation systems that balance the interests of states, technology companies, and the public. This article examines how two pieces of legislation establish regulatory intermediaries in an attempt to strike this balance: the EU's...

Trusted flaggers have long played a role in content moderation: a bilateral, voluntary affair between online platforms and individuals or organisations that are afforded prioritised access to the content moderation process. Due to their expertise, they are trusted to 'flag' illegal or harmful...

This article seeks to explore the socio-demographic determinants underlying the engagement of moderators and the production of content moderation norms in the French Twitch scene. Using a mixed-method approach, it highlights gender, politicisation, social class, and social vulnerability...

Online platforms have transformed how we live. This has raised concerns around how such platforms impact citizens' constitutionally-protected rights and freedoms, such as the freedom of expression and information, right to privacy, and protection from discrimination. To hold online platforms to...

Over the last few years, Europe has witnessed a rapid advance in technology in every sector. The emergence of multimodal digital mobility services (MDMS) has transformed the concept of mobility. In 2020, the European Commission committed to fostering multimodality as part of its Sustainable and...

As regulators seek to balance user privacy with publisher sustainability, Google's Privacy Sandbox offers a potential replacement for third-party cookies. This paper presents the first independent estimates of the publisher-side economic effects of Privacy Sandbox, a suite of privacy-enhancing...

This Flash Eurobarometer, conducted on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), attempts to assess whether the MDMS and Single Digital Booking and Ticketing initiatives can improve important factors for travellers when planning a journey in the...

This Flash Eurobarometer, conducted on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), attempts to assess whether the MDMS and Single Digital Booking and Ticketing initiatives can improve important factors for travellers when planning a journey in the...

Market definition is essential for antitrust analysis, but challenging in settings with network effects, where substitution patterns depend on changes in network size. To address this challenge, we conduct an incentivized experiment to measure substitution patterns for TikTok, a popular social...

On October 4, 2021, all services provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (then Facebook, Inc.) became unavailable unexpectedly for all its worldwide users for a period of about six hours. We use detailed high‐frequency tracking data from smartphones, tablets and desktop computers of thousands of Meta...

This family-friendly booklet explains in simple terms the European Commission's protection of minors guidelines under the Digital Services Act. It shows how online platforms should keep children and teens safe by putting their rights first, integrating privacy and safety in the design of the...

This family-friendly booklet explains in simple terms the European Commission's protection of minors guidelines under the Digital Services Act. It shows how online platforms should keep children and teens safe by putting their rights first, integrating privacy and safety in the design of the...

This study maps the scholarly landscape of digital technologies (DT) in the circular economy (CE) using bibliometric methods to identify key trends, contributors and thematic developments.A bibliometric analysis of 722 Scopus-indexed publications (2016-early 2025) was conducted, using VOSviewer...

Purpose - Identify the relationship between the amount of taxes and their payment by a digital enterprise and develop recommendations for improving the quality of e-commerce taxation. Research methodology - On the basis of dialectical and systematic methods, the influence of the amount of the...

This research aimed to assess the status of digital heritage and digital asset management as a source of strategic competitive advantage. The concept of digital heritage was examined in the individual dimension with "Author, Life Workshop Founder, Personal Consultant Mr. Aret Vartanyan" by using...

Das Werk behandelt grundlegend einige der drängendsten Fragen betreffend den Wettbewerb auf digitalen Märkten aus juristischer und ökonomischer Sicht. Neben einem u.a. von GAin Juliane Kokott verfassten Überblick über die aktuelle Rechtsprechung der Unionsgerichte zum Missbrauchsverbot...

Digital Services Taxes (DSTs) and the OECD/G20 BEPS reforms are central pillars of current efforts to tax multinational digital platforms, yet their joint effects remain poorly understood. We develop a model of a platform that sells hardware to consumers and advertising to firms, with the two...

We design profit-maximizing mechanisms to sell an excludable and non-rival good with positive and/or negative network effects. Buyers have heterogeneous private values that depend on how many others also consume the good. In optimum, an endogenous number of the highest types consume the good,...

This study explores the information-communication discourse in modern recruitment by applying the Design Thinking (DT) methodology to enhance employee selection and integration strategies. By incorporating digital tools and empathetic approaches, this study examines innovative practices that...