Human Rights in the Age of Platforms (Paperback)

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society. Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and to carry out human rights due diligence. But this goal is dependent on the willingness of states to encode such norms into business regulations and of companies to comply. In this volume, contributors from across law and internet and media studies examine the state of human rights in today's platform society. The contributors consider the "datafication" of society, including the economic model of data extraction and the conceptualization of privacy. They examine online advertising, content moderation, corporate storytelling around human rights, and other platform practices. Finally, they discuss the relationship between human rights law and private actors, addressing such issues as private companies' human rights responsibilities and content regulation. Contributors Anja Bechmann, Fernando Bermejo, Agnes Callamard, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rikke Frank Jorgensen, Molly K. Land, Tarlach McGonagle, Jens-Erik Mai, Joris van Hoboken, Glen Whelan, Jillian C. York, Shoshana Zuboff, Ethan Zuckerman Open access edition published with generous support from Knowledge Unlatched and the Danish Council for Independent Research.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Information Policy
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Rikke Frank Jorgensen (Senior Advisor)
Foreword by:	David Kaye (UN Special Rapporteur)
Contributors:	Shoshana Zuboff (Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration) • Mikkel Flyverbom (Associate Professor) • Anja Bechmann (Associate Professor of media science) • Jens-Erik Mai (Associate Professor) • Fernando Bermejo (Faculty Associate) • Jillian C. York • Rikke Frank Jorgensen (Senior Advisor) • Agnes Callamard (Director)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-03905-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > Advertising Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Political oppression & persecution > General
LSN:	0-262-03905-2
Barcode:	9780262039055

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