Hello all, Apologies for crossposting. This week marks the first of a summer-long series of webinars hosted by the Private Ordering Observatory (PrObs <http://probs.org/>) at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) entitled *Private Ordering Perspectives: Who Gets to Say Who Gets to Speak <https://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/en/projects/private-ordering-observatory>*. Click here <http://bit.ly/HBI-POP> to register. Further information below. Private Ordering Perspectives is a series of online talks spread out across the months of June, July and September 2021, each month with its own perspective. The three questions that the series is built on each tackle a general framework of private ordering, while simultaneously highlighting a particular case. *Query I*: Who gets to speak? What deplatforming can teach us - *June* *Query II*: What can we speak? The dealing with disinformation tells us - *July* *Query III*: Who makes the rules? Designing for better speech governance - * September* The first question in June is a fundamental one, “Who gets to speak?” *On June 10th, 1–2 CEST, Prof. Maura Conway <https://www.dcu.ie/lawandgovernment/people/maura-conway> of Dublin City University will talk to us about deplatforming and why one size does not fit all.Paper: Maura Conway (2020) Routing the Extreme Right <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071847.2020.1727157>, The RUSI Journal, 165:1, 108-113On June 17th, 12–1 CEST, Prof. Richard Rogers <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/o/r.a.rogers/r.a.rogers.html> of the University of Amsterdam will talk to us about what happens after deplatforming.Paper: Richard Rogers (2020) Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323120922066>, European Journal of Communication, 35:3, 213–229.On June 24th, 1–2 CEST, Prof. Elizabeth Pearson <https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/elizabeth-pearson(dd2e7370-fd3a-4306-8085-dd5746f4b101).html> of Royal Holloway University will talk about how deplatforming can be seen as a positive by those deplatformed.Paper: Elizabeth Pearson (2018) Online as the New Frontline: Affect, Gender, and ISIS-Take-Down on Social Media <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1352280>, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 41:11, 850-874* In July, the Private Ordering Perspectives series will feature the second fundamental question, “What can we speak?” and will focus primarily on the case of disinformation with three experts providing thought-provoking lectures on specific actions, interventions and regulatory responses surrounding misinformation online. The calendar for the July series will be released shortly, but we are able to confirm that Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol), Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (MIT) and Owen Bennet (Mozilla) will be our speakers, discussing their recent works. In September, the Private Ordering Perspectives series will tackle the final of three questions, “Who makes the rules?”. More specifically, the final of the three parts of the series will look at who, how and why designs rules related to online speech. Registration for the series is here <http://bit.ly/HBI-POP>. Webinar information will be sent shortly before the events. Questions about the event? Please contact the organizers, Matthias C. Kettemann <m.kettemann@leibniz-hbi.de> or David Morar <morar@nyu.edu>. David Morar, PhD Postdoctoral Data Policy Fellow NYU Steinhardt ~ Visiting Researcher Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut ~ @morar <https://twitter.com/morar> davidmorar.com