Constitutionalising Social Media
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Edoardo Celeste is Associate Professor in Law, Technology and Innovation at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University, Ireland.
Amélie Heldt is Associated Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research (Hans-Bredow-Institut), Germany.
Clara Iglesias Keller is Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin), Germany.
Constitutionalising Social Media is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on fundamental rights in our increasingly networked world. This book is part of a rapidly growing research field, as demonstrated by the establishment of the Digital Constitutionalism Network in 2019 and recent related publications.
Canadian Law Library Review
This book explores to what extent constitutional principles are put under strain in the social media environment, and how constitutional safeguards can be established for the actors and processes that govern this world: in other words, how to constitutionalise social media.
Millions of individuals around the world use social media to exercise a broad range of fundamental rights. However, the governance of online platforms may pose significant threats to our constitutional guarantees. The chapters in this book bring together a multi-disciplinary group of experts from law, political science, and communication studies to examine the challenges of constitutionalising what today can be considered the modern public square.
The book analyses the ways in which online platforms exercise a sovereign authority within their digital realms, and sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between social media platforms and state regulators. The chapters critically examine multiple methods of constitutionalising social media, arguing that the constitutional response to the global challenges generated by social media is necessarily plural and multilevel. All topics are presented in an accessible way, appealing to scholars and students in the fields of law, political science and communication studies.
The book is an essential guide to understanding how to preserve constitutional safeguards in the social media environment.
1. Introduction
Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Amélie Heldt (Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Germany) and Clara Iglesias Keller (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany)
PART 1
SOCIAL MEDIA AS A MODERN PUBLIC SQUARE
2. Social Media and Protest: Contextualising the Affordances of Networked Publics
Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University, Ireland)
3. The Rise of Social Media in the Middle East and North Africa: A Tool of Resistance or Repression?
Amy Kristin Sanders (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
4. Legal Framings in Networked Public Spheres: The Case of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean
Veronica Corcodel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
5. Social Media and the News Industry
Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
PART 2
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND PLATFORMS’ GOVERNANCE
6. Structural Power as a Critical Element of Social Media Platforms’ Private Sovereignty
Luca Belli (FGV Direito Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
7. No Place for Women: Gaps and Challenges in Promoting Equality on Social Media
Mariana Valente (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)
8. Social Media, Electoral Campaigns and Regulation of Hybrid Political Communication: Rethinking Communication Rights
Eugenia Siapera and Niamh Kirk (both at University College Dublin, Ireland)
9. Data Protection Law: Constituting an Effective Framework for Social Media?
Moritz Hennemann (Universität Passau, Germany)
PART 3
STATES AND SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION
10. Regulatory Shift in State Intervention: From Intermediary Liability to Responsibility
Giancarlo Frosio (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
11. Government–Platform Synergy and its Perils
Niva Elkin-Koren (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
12. Social Media and State Surveillance in China: The Interplay between Authorities, Businesses and Citizens
Yuner Zhu (City University of Hong Kong)
13. The Perks of Co-Regulation: An Institutional Arrangement for Social Media Regulation?
Clara Iglesias Keller (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany)
PART 4
CONSTITUTIONALISING SOCIAL MEDIA
14. Changing the Normative Order of Social Media from Within: Supervisory Bodies
Wolfgang Schulz (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Germany)
15. Content Moderation by Social Media Platforms: The Importance of Judicial Review
Amélie P Heldt (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Germany)
16. Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard
Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Nicola Palladino (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Dennis Redeker (University of Bremen, Germany) and Kinfe Yilma (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
This series concerns the transformative effects of the digital technology revolution on information law and regulation. Information law embraces multiple areas of law that affect the control and reuse of information, data and digital tools - intellectual property, data protection, privacy, freedom of information, state security, tort, contract and competition law. ‘Regulation’ is a similarly extensive concept in that it encompasses legal and non-legal modes of control, including technological design and codes of practice.
The series provides cross-cutting analysis and exploration of the complex and pressing issues that arise in a society where digital infrastructures are now pervasive and when massive volumes of digital information are shared globally. These issues include access to data; sharing, reuse, and governance of data; open source and public sector data; the legitimacy and transparency of training data; propertisation of data and digital tools; freedom of expression and information access rights; privacy rights and data protection regimes; and the role of the state and private entities in safeguarding the public interest in the uses of data.
In the spirit of representing the diverse nature of its topics, the series embraces various methodologies: doctrinal, comparative, empirical, theoretical, historical and socio-legal, and particularly welcomes monograph proposals.
The series is especially open to perspectives from jurisdictions or regions which have traditionally been underrepresented in the scholarly literature.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Edoardo Celeste is Associate Professor in Law, Technology and Innovation at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University, Ireland.
Amélie Heldt is Associated Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research (Hans-Bredow-Institut), Germany.
Clara Iglesias Keller is Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin), Germany.