Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society provides an international survey of social media and the law in society, blending academic, non-academic and non-governmental expertise to provide a thematic overview of social media and the law across a number of jurisdictions.
Offering an international thematic view which examines social media and the law in the context of international research, the book addresses such topics as politics and social media, online safety developments and digital constitutionalism amongst a range of others. With contributions from experts across disciplines, the book is a topical contribution to the field, detailing online harms, fake news, misinformation and disinformation, hate speech and gender-based violence on social media. Additionally, the book covers social media, elections and electoral violence, feminist perspectives on social media, alongside children and social media, online safety, and responsibility and liability.
Providing an analysis of the full spectrum of current issues in social media and the law, the Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society is an essential resource for advanced students, researchers, academics and industry experts.
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: social media, law and society
KIM BARKER AND OLGA JURASZ
PART I Reflections on law, society and social media
1 Social media, human rights and society 7
RIKKE FRANK JØRGENSEN
2 Regulating online harms down under: a contemporary assessment of law and society perspectives relating to social media platforms
HANNAH KLOSE
3 Masculine technologies and social media: the urgent need to identify, map, and combat new manifestations of gender-based violence
ANASTASIA KARAGIANNI
PART II Social media, gender and democracy
4 Intersectionality and the problems of using artificial intelligence to address online gender-based violence and gendered disinformation
DHANARAJ THAKUR
5 Gender, disinformation, and social media - protecting women's freedom of expression in the digital age
PAULA MARTINS
6 Social media, misinformation, and regulation in Southeast Asia: impacts on freedoms of expression and right to information
MICHAEL P. CAÑARES
7 State actors, disinformation, and social media: a new and dangerous chapter of lying in politics
ELIZA BECHTOLD
PART III Social media, youth and harms
8 Centring young people's accounts of digitally networked environments: a Canadian perspective
JANE BAILEY
9 Online child sexual abuse and the role of social media platforms in protecting children's rights: a European perspective
SABINE K. WITTING AND MARK R. LEISER
10 Crime and social media in Croatia: an interdisciplinary analysis
IGOR VULETIĆ AND GORAN LIVAZOVIĆ
PART IV Regulating social media
11 The softer side of censorship: geo-blocking content on social media platforms
MACKENZIE F. COMMON
12 Regulation of social media in Singapore
CHEN SIYUAN AND NATALIA BEADLE
13 Protecting media content on social media platforms in the EU
LIDIA DUTKIEWICZ AND ALEKSANDRA KUCZERAWY
PART V Social media and rights
14 Social media and digital constitutionalism
EDOARDO CELESTE
15 Platforms in the Brazilian civil rights framework for the internet: the need for progressive risk-based liability
DANIEL DIAS, LUCA BELLI, NICOLO ZINGALES, WALTER B. GASPAR AND YASMIN CURZI
16 Tackling cyber-violence, empowering users: assessing the impact of the Digital Services Act on social media due diligence
ELISABETTA STRINGHI
PART VI Social media, harms and safety
17 Complex online harms and assuring user agency: content moderation and agency by design
BENJAMIN FARRAND
18 Online violence against women in politics and democratic harms
KIM BARKER AND OLGA JURASZ
19 What is the purpose of social media regulation, and is the Online Safety Act likely to meet it?
ELLEN JUDSON
PART VII Technical capability and social media
20 Rediscovering interoperability: a vital tool to unlock the future of social media
SACHIN DHAWAN, FAWAZ SHAHEEN AND JHALAK M. KAKKAR
21 Accountability and regulation of digital speech infrastructures in the EU and beyond
ASAF WIENER
22 "It is a dangerous time for democracies": on why we need to take social media and generative AI seriously
EIRLIANI ABDUL RAHMAN, GIULIA CAMPAIOLI, SARA DI BARTOLOMEO, BEATE OCHSNER, DANIEL KEIM AND LIANE WÖRNER
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