Organisers/Hosts: Vili Lehdonvirta, Philipp Riederle
Sessions: Tuesdays, 1–2pm (UK time), during Oxford term time, via Zoom
Participation: Open to researchers and students from any university or research institution. Please apply here if you would like to join the seminar sessions.
Fall/Michaelmas Term 2025
- Week 1: Tue 14 Oct 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 8–9am Eastern
Nicole Starosielski, University of California–Berkeley
“Infrastructural Convergence at the Subsea Cable Landing Station” - Week 2: Tue 21 Oct 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 8–9am Eastern
Martín Harracá, National University of San Martín & Carla Bonina, University of Surrey
“The Coevolution of Governance Mechanisms and Architectural Choices in Transaction Platforms: A Study of Amazon’s Marketplace” - Week 3: Tue 28 Oct 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 9–10am Eastern*
Nick Srnicek, King’s College London
“The Rise of Silicon Empires” - Week 4: Tue 4 Nov 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 9–10am Eastern*
Otto Kässi, Aalto University
“Killers on the Road of Emerging Start-Ups: Implications for Market Entry and Venture Capital Financing” - Week 5: Tue 11 Nov 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 8–9am Eastern
Tommy Pan Fang, Rice University
“Where the Cloud Rests: The Economic Geography of Data Centers” - Week 6: Tue 18 Nov 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 8–9am Eastern
Abid A. Adonis, Oxford Internet Institute
“Negotiating Digital Sovereignty: Examining Indonesia’s Nongsa Special Economic Zone in Cloud and Data Centres” - Week 7: Tue 25 Nov 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 8–9am Eastern
Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen
“Geopolitical Struggles of the Emerging Global Tech Order” - Week 8: Tue 2 Dec 2025, 1–2pm UK / 3–4pm Finland / 8–9am Eastern
Philipp Riederle, Oxford Internet Institute
“Same but Different? User Choice under Digital Platform Interoperability”
*Eastern time is temporarily 9–10am on 28 Oct and 4 Nov, due to daylight saving time ending on different dates in the UK and US.
About the Oxford–Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar
Today’s economies are critically dependent on transnational digital platforms and infrastructures. Platforms are shaped by economic forces but increasingly also by governments’ security interests, while large technology companies have themselves emerged as powerful actors in global politics. The Oxford–Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar brings together emerging research on the political economy and governance of transnational digital platforms and infrastructures, broadly understood. The virtual seminar is hosted by Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and doctoral researcher Philipp Riederle at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University. The seminar has been running continuously since 2016 and was originally titled the Oxford Platform Economy Seminar.