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The scientific conference on Digital Democracy on 20- 21 November 2025, focused on digital inequalities and their impact on the functioning of democracies.
The conference aimed to gather a wide community interested in understanding and addressing the disparities in access to and use of digital technology, as well as the impact of digitalisation on economic, social, and political inequalities. For more information about the conference, access our dedicated page.
This page compiles presentations delivered at the conference on Understanding and addressing digital inequalities. All materials are shared with the consent of the authors and are intended for use by fellow conference participants.
Keynote speech
All together now? Inequalities in power and participation in a rapidly changing digital world — Ellen Helsper
Parallel session 1A
From factories to platforms: European institutions and the challenge of digital inequality — Pier Luigi Parcu
Parallel session 1B
Digitalising predistribution: addressing the effacement of technology in the media and information ecosystem — Mafalda Damaso, Katharine Sarikakis
Media poverty: exploring mediated public connection in conditions of deprivation — Torgeir Uberg Nærland
Access denied: paywalls, information inequality, and the economics of quality journalism — Iva Nenadic, Nebojsa Stojcic, Romana John
Parallel session 1C
Data liberation experiments and the politics of platform interoperability — Urbano Reviglio, Claudio Agosti
The unforgettable chain: how the clash between blockchain and GDPR forges a new frontier of digital inequality — Alessandro Billi
Parallel session 2A
Demand for smartphones and digital divide — Toker Doganoglu, Lukasz Grzybowski, Ambre Nicolle
App by app: behavioral footprints of digital inequality — Bence Ságvári
Parallel session 2B
Double deserts in Europe: exploring regional gaps in local news and broadband access — Tijana Blagojev, Jan Kermer, Marie Palmer
Digital infrastructure spillovers: state capacities and inequalities in the EU — Paško Bilić, Valentina Vučković
Connectivity in the metaverse: digital divide and the advent of satellite mega-constellations — Giovanni Sorrentino, Giovanni Tricco, Roser Almenar
Parallel session 2C
INCLUSIA: A human-rights-driven framework for digital inclusion in essential services — Milica Lazarevic, Ilse Mariën
Artificial intelligence and digital cognitive inequality — Onno Hansen-Staszyński
Bridging a Growing Divide: Reframing GenAI Effectiveness through Accessibility, Workforce Succession, and Rights-Based Design — Kevin Spellman
Parallel session 3A
Digital access and income inequality: a cross-country econometric study (2000–2022) — Alessandra Bucci
Parallel session 3B
Invisible ink: artistic data and the erosion of cultural agency — Georgia Jenkins
Defining fairness in the digital music industry: perspectives from music industry professionals — Marina Rossato Fernandes, Antonios Vlassis
Record labels, competition and diversity in the Latin American digital music landscape — Miguel Humberto Tomas Miranda
Parallel session 3C
Behind the shield of protecting minors: can vulnerability justify inequality? — Federica Casarosa, Lavinia Vizzoni
Parallel session 4A
Digital divide and competition: antitrust is not a Swiss army knife but… — Andrea Pezzoli, Alessandra Tonazzi
Social media platforms as business driven by addictiveness: is there a role for competition law? — Maciej Bernatt, Joanna Mazur
The illusion of choice: EU data protection and competition law in light of Meta’s AI training practices — Rosa Maria Torraco, Elda Brogi
Parallel session 4B
The political supply of TikTok: an attention oligopoly — Benjamin Guinaudeau, Kylan Rutherford, Solomon Messing, Joshua A. Tucker
Simulating human susceptibility to misinformation via personality-aligned LLMs: a step toward scalable, inclusive behavioral insights — Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi
Parallel session 4C
Tackling digital inequalities through equality and non-discrimination law? — Claudia Wutscher
Parallel session 5B
Socioterritorial impacts of disinformation: global challenges, local perspectives — Marcelle Chagas Do Monte
Honesty is no excuse: an argument for increased social media intermediary liability in India — Sakshi Sharma, Aishwarya Pagedar
Parallel session 5C
Digital natives wanted! The digital divide as a legal inequality issue — Esther Forson
Parallel session 6A
Cracking the Job Platform Code: assessing candidates’ skills for online job search — Stefano De Marco, Ellen Helsper, Guillaume Dumont, Mirko Antino
Returns to digital skills around the world: evidence from PIAAC’s second (2022-2023) wave — Tomasz Drabowicz, Maja Rynko
Exploring the root causes of digital exclusion in digital development — Franz-Ferdinand Rothe
Parallel session 6B
Disparate impacts of algorithmic bias on primary and secondary educational opportunities — Chris Goodman
Algorithmic inequalities and epistemic exclusion: AI, vulnerability, and digital (Dis)empowerment in Israel — Michael Sierra
Parallel session 6C
Algorithmic inequality and the law — Mark Drenhaus
Parallel session 7A
Data are a girl’s best friend: tackling digital financial inequality through sex disaggregated data — Eliana Canavesio
The use of robo-advising in Italy: insights from a new survey — Massimiliano Stacchini, Pietro Vassallo
Parallel session 7B
Parallel digital worlds: restrictions on anti-censorship tools as an emerging authoritarian norm — Patryk Pawlak, Nils Berglund
Bridging regions, aligning values: AI governance and democratic innovation in Europe and East Asia — Flavia Lucenti