نبذة مختصرة : International audience ; This paper proposes to start considering the role that citizens play in platform governance, as it invites us to: critically reflect on issues of inclusivity to decision-making, avoid projecting and perpetuating existent power asymmetries through our research, as well as contribute to theorising how alternative structures of governance could be reified. This article attempts to apply the above suggestion by studying the involvement of citizens in recent European efforts to regulate online content. It does so by employing an experimental methodology, namely a computationally assisted Critical Discourse Analysis. The present analysis suggests that: citizens should not be considered as a homogenous stakeholder group in platform governance, that public consultations are yet another field of (geo)political contestation and can also serve as a platform for citizens to express their concerns regarding EU politics. Concluding, the paper maintains that scholarship should adopt a more encompassing scope when studying platform governance, especially concerning citizen and user participation, beyond the traditional frame of participation through civil society representation.
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