Emerging Tech: Law - Power - Policy
Geopolitical Cycles & Tech for Active Non-Alignment
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Juan Ortiz Freuler
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Broader research agenda:
I study how intermediation allows tech companies to increase their centrality within information networks, and how states then strive to exploit/neutralize these central positions to advance their own priorities.
See: juanof.me/publications
📰 🏗️ 🌎 Happy to share my ✨latest article✨: "Informational Sovereignty: The Commercial and Geopolitical Risk of Newsroom Dependency on Third-Party Infrastructure in Latin America", which was published by the International Journal of Communication (IJOC). ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Bottom right quadrant of my Table 1 surprisingly in line with the latest Vatican encyclical ("magnifica humanitas"):
->"110. [...] To disarm...means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate..."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Earlier versions of this article were presented at the TPRC (2024 - poster); @icahdq.bsky.social (2025); PlatGov (2025); GIG-ARTS EU (2025); and Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) (2026). I am grateful to organizers, reviewers, and participants for their feedback and suggestions
