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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">With apology for cross-posting, I wanted to share the CfP for the PlatGovNet2025:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">---<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">PlatGovNet2025: Transitions, Frictions, and New Realities in Global Platform Governance</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">The 2025 Platform Governance Research Network (PlatGovNet) conference welcomes a wide range of different perspectives and interests, including, but not limited to, submissions
that focus on the complex and contentious politics of platforms, for example new (geo)political tensions, developments around generative artificial intelligence, and the wider diversity of rarely examined actors including smaller platforms, non-state actors,
and middleware initiatives. Full details can be found in the CfP (<a href="https://platgov.net/conferences/2025" title="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplatgov.net%2Fconferences%2F2025&data=05%7C02%7Cdil%40HUM.KU.DK%7C2bc74388c79543512cf308ddb3f84121%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C638864600994565472%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8ey">https://platgov.net/conferences/2025</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">The <b>online</b> conference will take place on <b>December 12, 2025</b>. This conference is open to all interested researchers and members of civil society and will have <b><u>no
registration fee</u></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#153D63;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Abstracts (8001,000 words) are due <b>September 2</b> via <a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2025" title="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fcfp%2FPlatGovNet2025&data=05%7C02%7Cdil%40HUM.KU.DK%7C2bc74388c79543512cf308ddb3f84121%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C638864600994574371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3">https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2025</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#153D63;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Accepted submissions announced: mid-October 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#153D63;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Online conference: December 1-2, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with others who might be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63"><br>
<b>2025 Platform Governance Research Network Conference Organizing Committee</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Pranav Bidare, Center for Internet and Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Robert Gorwa, WZB Berlin Social Science Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Ivar Hartmann, Insper So Paulo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Clara Iglesias Keller, Weizenbaum Institute, WZB Berlin Social Science Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Emillie de Keulenaar, University of Copenhagen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Diyi Liu, University of Copenhagen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Joo C. Magalhes, University of Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#153D63">Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Copenhagen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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