Human rights in the age of platforms / edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen ; foreword by David Kaye.

Contributor(s): Jørgensen, Rikke Frank [editor.] | Kaye, David (David A.) [author of introduction, etc.]
Language: English Series: Information policy series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xlv, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262353946; 0262353946; 9780262353939; 0262353938; 9780262353953; 0262353954Subject(s): Human rights | Information society | Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Information storage and retrieval systems -- Human rights | Information storage and retrieval systems -- Human rightsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 341.48 LOC classification: JC571 | .H7695266 2019ebOnline resources: Full text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.
Contents:
Datafication. "We make them dance" : surveillance capitalism, the rise of instrumentarian power, and the threat to human rights / Shoshana Zuboff -- Digital transformations, informed realities and human conduct / Mikkel Flyverbom & Glen Whelan -- Representation, accountability, and equality in big data and machine learning / Anja Bechmann -- Situating personal information : privacy in the algorithmic age / Jens-Erik Mai -- Platforms. Online advertisement as a shaper of public communication / Fernando Bermejo -- Moderating the public sphere / Jillian York & Ethan Zuckerman -- Rights talk : in the kingdom of online giants / Rikke Frank Jørgensen -- Regulation. The human rights obligations of non-state actors / Agnes Callamard -- The council of Europe and internet intermediaries : a case-study of tentative posturing / Tarlach McGonagle -- The privacy disconnect / Joris van Hoboken -- Regulating private harms online : content regulation under human rights law / Molly Land.
In: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)Summary: "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."--Provided by publisher
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I. Datafication. "We make them dance" : surveillance capitalism, the rise of instrumentarian power, and the threat to human rights / Shoshana Zuboff -- Digital transformations, informed realities and human conduct / Mikkel Flyverbom & Glen Whelan -- Representation, accountability, and equality in big data and machine learning / Anja Bechmann -- Situating personal information : privacy in the algorithmic age / Jens-Erik Mai -- II. Platforms. Online advertisement as a shaper of public communication / Fernando Bermejo -- Moderating the public sphere / Jillian York & Ethan Zuckerman -- Rights talk : in the kingdom of online giants / Rikke Frank Jørgensen -- III. Regulation. The human rights obligations of non-state actors / Agnes Callamard -- The council of Europe and internet intermediaries : a case-study of tentative posturing / Tarlach McGonagle -- The privacy disconnect / Joris van Hoboken -- Regulating private harms online : content regulation under human rights law / Molly Land.

"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."--Provided by publisher

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