Events

Via Zoom  RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu An Internet Governance Project (IGP)/Quello Center joint event. On April 4, 2025, the Internet Governance Project (IGP) in collaboration with the Quello Center will gather scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations of the term are compatible with the foundational values of the open internet. Recently, new books and analyses have been published, including the book edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli, Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries (Cambridge, 2025), the volume by Johannes Thumfart, The liberal internet […]

Via Zoom  To RSVP please email quello@msu.edu More information to come.   Robert Gorwa did graduate work in media and communication/internet studies (MSc) and politics and international relations (DPhil) in Oxford before joining the WZB as one of its Digitization Postdocs. He conducts interdisciplinary empirical and conceptual research on various dimensions of technology policy, with a special interest in emerging socio-technical governance infrastructures and institutions in the platform economy. Since moving to Berlin, he has been organizing the WZB's Platform Politics and Policy Seminar series, coordinating the Platform Governance Research Network (PlatGovNet), and completing the research for his first book (published in 2024 […]