Full Description
Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity, law and politics. The essays provoke timely discussions on how these different spheres affect each other and co-evolve in our increasingly hyper-connected and globalized world.
Contents
1. Introduction; Wouter de Been, Payal Arora and Mireille Hildebrandt PART I: COMMUNICATION, LAW AND POLITICS 2. From National Borders to Embedded Borderings: One Angle into the Question of Territory and Space in a Global Age; Saskia Sassen 3. Playing Around with a Few of Your Favorite Things: Freedom and Continuity on the Internet; Wouter de Been 4. The Networked Self in the Modulated Society; Julie E. Cohen 5. Fragments and Continuities of Law and ICT: A Pragmatist Approach to Understanding Legal Pluralism; Sanne Taekema PART II: NEW ICTS, IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE 6. Database Identity: Personal and Cultural Identity in the Age of Global Datafication; Jos de Mul 7. Rethinking Belonging in the Era of Social Media: Migration and Presence; Mariangela Veikou and Eugenia Siapera 8. Rule play: Negotiating Cyberspace and the Cybercultured Self in Saudi Arabia; Leigh Llewellyn Graham 9. Human-algorithmic Scaffolding; Thomas Petzold PART III: NEW ICTS AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES 10. Has theArt Market Become Truly Global? Evidence from China and India; Femke van Hest and Filip Vermeylen 11. From Metaphysics to Metadata: Tagging as a Social Practice; Nicola Bozzi 12. National Popular Culture in an Interconnected World: The Case of Pop charts; Marc Verboord and Amanda Brandellero
