none 10.5117/9789048562718_intro Informa UK Limited Informa UK (Routledge) 301 176138880 6430853 2025050704052006360 10.4324 2025-10-09T10:43:00Z 2025-05-07T04:05:26Z 1 10.2307/jj.28874939.6 10.1515/9789048562725-004 10.5117/9789048562718-101 José van Dijck Karin van Es Anne Helmond Fernando van der Vlist Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, and widening inequalities have prompted a critical and urgent debate: Can digital societies still be effectively governed? This book brings together insights from various disciplines to address the pressing question: “How can we develop and apply principles of (good) governance in digital societies that are organized democracies?” Governing the Digital Society presents a range of governance approaches, focusing on online platforms, artificial intelligence, and the public values that underpin these technologies. The authors position themselves at the forefront of their disciplines, offering perspectives from law, critical data studies, urban studies, science and technology studies, computational linguistics, and the political economy of media. Expert interviews provide additional insights into ongoing efforts to tackle the challenges of governing digital societies. The book demonstrates that governance is not just a technical or legal process but a complex societal one, embedding norms, values, and morality into our institutions and daily lives. 20 2025 20 2025 9789048562725 9789048562725 9789048562718 Amsterdam University Press Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 10.5117/9789048562718 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048562718 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048562718 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048562718 José van Dijck Utrecht University Karin van Es Utrecht University Anne Helmond Utrecht University Fernando van der Vlist University of Amsterdam 20 2025 10.5117/9789048562718_intro https://scienceopen.com/book?vid=b60a5fd2-99cf-4f56-b8dc-e46f30ffad13 https://scienceopen.com/book?vid=b60a5fd2-99cf-4f56-b8dc-e46f30ffad13 https://scienceopen.com/book?vid=b60a5fd2-99cf-4f56-b8dc-e46f30ffad13