Modalités d'enseignement

Organisation du cours

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Teaching and Course Format

The course is taught through frontal lectures. Lectures take place once a week, and altogether there are 9 lectures of 2 hours each. At the end of 7 of the 9 classes, 30 minutes will be devoted to the collective discussion of the set reading for the day. Students are encouraged to participate and ask questions. Lectures are designed to outline the topic in general, highlight illustrative examples and discuss some salient points. They are meant to introduce to the topic at hand, to build the basis of informed discussion and exam answers. Students are expected to attend all the lectures and to read and prepare the readings.

Please note that all the course materials and readings, plus the lectures PPTs presentations, will be available on I-Campus (Moodle).

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Course Assessment

Students are required to attend classes and come prepared (i.e., having done and thought a bit about the readings).The course grade will be based on course participation and individual assignments:

1) Research paper (counts for 50% of the final grade): You are expected to produce an essay (introduction + argumentation + conclusion + bibliography +ChatGPT use explanation) on a topic related to the course content. The paper can be theoretical or empirical and is meant to hone in on one particular question that the students can pick themselves (although they should briefly discuss this with me in advance). Choose a topic relating to EU digital policies or to international technology regulation. You may choose any topic we have learned about this semester, or pick a new topic of your choosing. Send me an email by February 15, 2024 informing me of your chosen topic for approval. Once you have my approval, write the final paper discussing the policy, economic or societal consequences of a certain regulatory issue or how the digital regulation challenges you chose impact state, political representation or society. As always, your ideas should be heavily supported with research from our course readings, and/or other evidence and sources. Please limit your essay to 2500 words (excluding bibliography). Submit the essay in either word (.doc) or pdf format. The essay should be complemented by a final section of at least 500 words in which you detail how you used any AI content generator platform such as ChatGPT in preparing and drafting your essay. Students should submit their work to the course convenor by email (Giulia.sandri@univ-catholille.fr) by April 22, 2024 at 23:59.

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2) Oral presentation (counts for 40 % of the final grade): In this individual exercise, students will briefly present to the class and the convenor the draft ideas for the final paper. The oral presentation will last 10 minutes per each student and will take place during the last session of the course on April 3, 2024 from 11am to 1pm.

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3) Participation in class (counts for 10% of the final grade): Students are always expected to actively participate to the debate at the end of or during each lecture, especially when we are discussing the 7 compulsory readings, by asking questions and by trying to answer to, and comment on, the points raised during the lecture. Whenever possible, you are invited to refer to other literature and readings of the course, and to the news and ongoing events that the students may know or consider relevant to discuss the topic. Your participation is, in fact, is worth 10% of your final grade. I will be keeping track of student participation.

Méthodes pédagogiques

Évaluation

Contrôle continu : coeff. 100

Bibliographie

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  Recommended texts and readings||||
  Bonnamy, C. (2023). From liberalisation to regulation: managerial political work in the European digital copyright policy (2014–2019). Journal of European Public Policy, 1-23.||
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  Bradford, A. (2023). Digital empires: The global battle to regulate technology. Oxford University Press.||
  Cini, M., & Czulno, P. (2022). Digital Single Market and the EU Competition Regime: An Explanation of||
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  Farrand, B. (2023). The ordoliberal internet? Continuity and change in the EU’s approach to the governance of cyberspace. European Law Open, 2(1), 106-127.||
  Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford.||
  Floridi, L. (2020). The fight for digital sovereignty: What it is, and why it matters, especially for the EU. Philosophy & technology, 33, 369-378.||
  Floridi, L. (2023). The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities.||
  Genç-Gelgeç, B. (2022). Regulating Digital Platforms: Would the DSA and the DMA Work Coherently?. Journal of Law, Market & Innovation, 1(3), 89-107.||
  Haggart, B., & Keller, C. I. (2021). Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance. Telecommunications Policy, 45(6), 102152. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102152||
  Heidebrecht, S. (2022). Mapping continuity and change of goals, protagonists and instruments of EU digital single market governance over three decades. EIF Working Paper(1/2022). Retrieved from https://eif.univie.ac.at/downloads/workingpapers/wp2022-01.pdf||
  Heidebrecht, S. (2023). From Market Liberalism to Public Intervention: Digital Sovereignty and Changing European Union Digital Single Market Governance. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.||
  Laurer, M., & Seidl, T. (2021). Regulating the European Data-Driven Economy: A Case Study on the General Data Protection Regulation. Policy & Internet, 13(2), 257-277. doi:10.1002/poi3.246||
  Laux, J., Wachter, S., & Mittelstadt, B. (2021). Taming the few: Platform regulation, independent audits, and the risks of capture created by the DMA and DSA. Computer Law & Security Review, 43, 105613. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2021.105613||
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  Marcut, M. (2020). The Governance of Digital Policies: Towards a New Competence in the European Union. Springer Nature, pp. 65-122.||
  Martins, C., & Carugati , C. (2022). Insights for successful enforcement of Europe’s Digital Markets Act. Bruegel Blog. Retrieved from https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/insights-successfulenforcement-europes-digital-markets-act||
  Schünemann, W. J., & Windwehr, J. (2021). Towards a ‘gold standard for the world’? The European General Data Protection Regulation between supranational and national norm entrepreneurship. Journal of European Integration, 43(7), 859-874. doi:10.1080/07036337.2020.1846032||
  Newman, A. L. (2020). Digital Policy-Making in the European Union. In: Policy-making in the European Union, Wallace et al., pp.275-295.||
  Pasquale, F. (2015). The black box society: The secret algorithms that control money and information. Harvard University Press.||
  Policy Change. Journal of European Integration, 44(1), 41-57. doi:10.1080/07036337.2021.2011260||
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