The Future of Political Debate Online II with Teresa Ballell

For the second episode of the thematic mini-series “The future of political debate online”, on the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell, Associate Professor of Commercial Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Member of the Expert Group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. They talk about what is digital community, and how to create the conditions for a fruitful political debate on digital platforms.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the Movimento Liberal Social with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of it.

Show notes 

The podcast, as well as previous episodes, is available on Soundcloud, Apple Podcast, Stitcher and Spotify.

You can see Teresa talking about her fields of research in the webinar “On the Agenda – Keeping Pace with the Platform Economy”, and in the “On the agenda – “Online Platforms: The fine line between regulation and innovation”.

You can find Teresa’s publication on “The Legal Anatomy of Electronic Platforms: A Prior Study to Assess the Need of a Law of Platforms in the EU”, here, “The background of the Digital Services Act: looking towards a platform economy” here, and “Credibility-Enhancing Regulatory Models to Counter Fake News:Risks of a Non-Harmonized Intermediary Liability Paradigm Shift” here , and follow her on Linkedin here.

The declaration at the end of the movie Brief Affair, that Ricardo mentions in the intro can be found here, and the song by Boards of Canada here.

You can know more about the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy here.