Trisha Meyer is a Professorial Fellow at UNU-CRIS since January 2019, where she is involved in the GREMLIN project on Global and Regional Multistakeholder Institutions.
Trisha is also Research Director of the Centre on Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Before joining UNU-CRIS, she held postdoctoral positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Turku, researching the contestation of public service values in copyright and platform regulation.
Trisha Meyer researches the regulatory push toward and societal consequences of tech platforms taking proactive (automated) measures to moderate online content. A second closely related research strand pertains to stakeholder engagement and participatory governance in digital policy. In recent years, her research has focused on the balancing act necessary when developing responses to tackle disinformation online. Her research interests include: digital governance, stakeholder participation, platform regulation, technological power, online content moderation, and freedom of expression.
Research Interests
- Digital governance
- Stakeholder participation
- Platform regulation
- Technological power
- Online content moderation
- Freedom of expression