10/07/2026
📣 ERUA Summer School for doctoral students: Infrastructures of Democracy: Internet Politics Through a Critical Lens
🗓️ Date: 14-16 September 2026
📍Location: SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland
⏳ Application deadline: 14 July 2026 by midnight (CEST).
More information: https://english.swps.pl/we-the-university/our-news-and-events/conferences-and-seminars/35314-infrastructures-of-democracy-internet-politics-through-a-critical-lens
🙌 The Summer School welcomes doctoral students working on topics including:
• Media ecologies and digital infrastructures.
• AI and its social, political, and legal dimensions.
• Digital resistance and ethnographies of the digital.
• Geopolitics, digital sovereignty, and digital colonialism.
• Platform economies, disinformation, and attention economies.
• Critical user interface design and the evolution of network infrastructures.
📣 ERUA Summer School: Infrastructures of Democracy: Internet Politics Through a Critical Lens
🗓️ Date: September 14-16, 2026
📍Location: SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland
👉 The program is addressed to: Ph.D. students from member universities of the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) Thesis advisors who would like to help mentor our course participants
👉 ECTS points: 3.
🗣️ Language of instruction: English.
⏳ Application deadline: July 14, 2026 by midnight (CEST).
🌍 How do digital infrastructures shape democracy, society, and the way we communicate?
Join the ERUA Summer School 2026 and explore today’s most pressing questions around the internet, platform societies, AI, digital sovereignty, media ecologies, digital colonialism, and communication infrastructures through an interdisciplinary perspective.
💡 Over three days, participants will:
• Present their doctoral research and receive personalized feedback from international experts.
• Take part in interactive discussion panels and guest lectures.
• Connect with researchers, fellow PhD students, and NGO practitioners working on internet regulation.
• Develop new interdisciplinary approaches and strengthen their research skills.
🙌 The Summer School welcomes doctoral students working on topics including:
• Media ecologies and digital infrastructures.
• AI and its social, political, and legal dimensions.
• Digital resistance and ethnographies of the digital.
• Geopolitics, digital sovereignty, and digital colonialism.
• Platform economies, disinformation, and attention economies.
• Critical user interface design and the evolution of network infrastructures.
We look forward to welcoming the next generation of researchers exploring the future of democracy and digital societies. 🌍✨
🌐 Visit our website for more details: https://erua-eui.eu/2026/07/03/erua-summer-school-infrastructures-of-democracy-internet-politics-through-a-critical-lens/