Dear coleagues I'm happy to inform you that a new special issue edited by Olivier Baisnée and me has just been published by the European Journal of Communication. best regards Nikos - Apologies for crossposting- New issue: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJC/current olume 38 Issue 5, October 2023 Special Issue: Critically understanding the platformization of the public sphereSpecial Issue: Critically understanding the platformization of the public sphere Guest Editors: Nikos Smyrnaios & Olivier Baisnée Introduction: Critically understanding the platformization of the public sphere Nikos Smyrnaios Olivier Baisnée Free access: https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=c178cd9a-42f5-460f-8ece-a6f9... Alt Tech and the public sphere: Exploring Bitchute as a political media infrastructure Eugenia Siapera Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231231189041 ‘The non-interference principle’: Debating online platforms’ treatment of editorial content in the European Union's Digital Services Act Charis Papaevangelou Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231231189036 Comparing the platformization of news media systems: A cross-country analysis Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Richard Fletcher Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231231189036 A method for time-varying analysis of YouTube search results and related videos: The case of the war in Ukraine João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos A method for time-varying analysis of YouTube search results and related videos: The case of the war in Ukraine<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02673231231190762>