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Civil society coalitions in the EU media regulation: when field theory meets network analysis

Project: RECLAIM

Authors: Luis Bouza, Juan Roch and Álvaro Oleart

The field of Eurocracy has increasingly been shaped by the emergence of actors lobbying on the area of digital regulation, which has heavily increased during the Von der Leyen Commission. We study the extra-institutional actor networks that have been involved in the EU digital policy formulation, and hypothesise that beyond clearly visible networks of opposition, the subjacent social structure of discourse networks was dominated by Big Tech.

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