how to become an author

Submit your article!

We want to present our readers a diverse range of interesting reads regarding the Sharing Economy, Platforms & Data, Policy & Regulation, and the Internet. To achieve that, we encourage researchers, experts and other interested parties from various disciplines (Economics, Political and Social Sciences, Computer Science, Law) to submit blog articles.

A blog posts should meet the following requirements:

Length: max. 10 000 characters (including spaces).

Type of contribution: research reports, analyses, or policy briefs.

Gender-sensitive language.
Find guidelines for gender-inclusive language here.

Charts and tables are welcome.

Little formatting, no automatic hyphenation.

Topicality: Contributions not yet published are welcome. We also welcome wrappings of existing studies or abstracts.

Language: German or English.

A list of keywords.

Requirements fulfilled?

Please send contributions to: info@plamadiso.weizenbaum-institut.de

Contributions and submissions should include brief information (CV, photo and e-mail address) of all authors.

If you have never written a blog post from a journal article and would like inspiration, check out this how-to: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/25/how-to-write-a-blogpost-from-your-journal-article/

Further questions? Get in touch with us.

If you have further questions regarding the publication process or whether your contribution matches with our profile, do not hesitate to contact us! Just fill out the form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.