Julian A. Morgan

About

Julian researches the configurations of power resulting from platform risk management and trust production. Employing both theoretical and empirical methods, his research seeks to build towards a critical descriptive account of risk-based reporting by digital platforms. Through a qualitative analysis, his research explores how risk-based reporting discursively allocates epistemic authority, reconfigures standards of legality, and redistributes the processes of trust production in the digital sphere.

Julian is a doctoral researcher at the law faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on the political economy and governance of digital platforms and algorithmic systems, with a focus on the Digital Services Act and risk-based regulatory approaches such as the AI Act.

Julian has published and edited works in the Glossary of Decentralised Techno-social systems at the Internet Policy Review. His works include exploratory studies of decentralised content moderation. Currently under review are works developing theoretical approaches to epistemic power and digital discipline in platformised contexts.

Research Group: Technology, Power, and Domination (13.04.-13.10.2026)