Human rights in the age of platforms / edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jørgensen, Rikke Frank, editor.

Series:

Information policy series.

Information policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Information society.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlv, 342 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.

System Details:

data file

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.

Contents:

"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 and 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

Online advertisement as a shaper of public communication / Fernando Bermejo

Moderating the public sphere / Jillian York and Ethan Zuckerman

Rights talk: in the kingdom of online giants / Rikke Frank Jørgensen

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 harm online: content regulation under human rights law / Molly Land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262353953

0262353954

9780262353939

0262353938

OCLC:

1099682462

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access