Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
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Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
@palomohernandez.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore. Researching on AI and democracy. #FirstGen
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The paper ‘Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation’, co-authored by @alvarooleart.bsky.social and myself, has just been published in the @delibdemjournal.bsky.social! (1/3)

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Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation
Technology has recently entered the scene of deliberative democracy, both as a subject of deliberation and as a way to improve deliberative processes. The hegemonic position in this debate within the ...
delibdemjournal.org
Reposted by Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
Check out our new paper in the @delibdemjournal.bsky.social l.bsky.social by @palomohernandez.bsky.social & myself! We argue that introducing technology as a ‘solution’ to ‘fix’ some of the ‘problems’ within the deliberative democracy community reinforces its depoliticisation and disintermediation 👇
December 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The paper ‘Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation’, co-authored by @alvarooleart.bsky.social and myself, has just been published in the @delibdemjournal.bsky.social! (1/3)

delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1...
Why AI Technosolutionism Harms Democracy and Deliberation
Technology has recently entered the scene of deliberative democracy, both as a subject of deliberation and as a way to improve deliberative processes. The hegemonic position in this debate within the ...
delibdemjournal.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My article "Towards Automating Deliberation? The Idea of Deliberative Democracy Embedded in Google’s Habermas Machine" is now published in the proceedings of the 8th
@aaai.org / @acm.org Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (#AIES25), held in Madrid this week: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Towards Automating Deliberation? The Idea of Deliberative Democracy Embedded in Google’s Habermas Machine | Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
ojs.aaai.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
Interested in knowing how Big Tech business lobbies have dominated the EU’s policy response to disinformation? Check out the new paper by @luisbouzagarcia.bsky.social and I in @irpp.bsky.social. You can find it here in open access: journals.openedition.org/irpp/5395
From self to co-regulation in the EU’s approach to disinformation: ...
Introduction: The role of actors in the (co-)regulation of disinformation in the EU Ever since 2016, when the ‘Remain’ camp lost the Brexit referendum campaign in the UK and Trump won the US Presid...
journals.openedition.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
Interested in how the EU constructed an artificial sense of legitimacy (‘citizenwashing’) of its tech policies through citizens' panels on virtual worlds & AI? Then check our new article co-written by @perlepetit.bsky.social & I in @cogitatiopag.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence | Article | Politics and Governance
Perle Petit, Alvaro Oleart
www.cogitatiopress.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
What can the European Union learn from the fall of Star Wars' Old Galactic Republic? My friend Lorenzo Díez-Picazo and I have just published an article in the Digital Constitutionalist trying to answer to that question! Check it out👇👇

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The European Union’s ‘phantom menaces’: What can the European political system learn from the institutional design and the fall of Star Wars’ Old Galactic Republic? — The Digital Constitutionalist
1. Introduction Star Wars is undoubtedly one of the great myths of our time. Its films and series are a great compendium which reflect the zeitgeist of Western society about a wide range of themes tha...
digi-con.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
Batalla’s double penalty save allows Rayo Vallecano to dream of Europe | Sid Lowe
Batalla’s double penalty save allows Rayo Vallecano to dream of Europe | Sid Lowe
A chaotic and dramatic end to Friday’s 1-0 win at Leganés extended Rayo Vallecano’s unbeaten run to eight matches The ball was in play for just four seconds during the last 11 minutes of another Madrid derby but that was enough, every emotion packed into…
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by Nicolás Palomo Hdez.
Why has the EU supported Ukraine but ‘othered’ Palestine? @juanroch.bsky.social & I just published the article “The Colonial Imaginary of ‘Europe’ in the EU’s Asymmetrical Response to the Russian and Israeli Aggressions” in @jcms-eu.bsky.social. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Colonial Imaginary of ‘Europe’ in the EU's Asymmetrical Response to the Russian and Israeli Aggressions: Ukraine as a Member of the ‘Family’ Whilst ‘Othering’ Palestine
What is ‘Europe’? The response to this question is not straightforward, as ‘Europe’ is a floating signifier that is in constant renegotiation. In this article, we focus on the imaginary of ‘Europe’ t...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM