Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies / Tijana Milosevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milosevic, Tijana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author's research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect themselves and users. This includes interviews with NGO and social media company reps in the US and the EU. She triangulates these findings against news, policy reports, evaluations and interviews with e-safety experts. This book raises questions about the legitimacy of expecting companies to balance the tension between free speech and child protection without publicly revealing their decision-making processes. In an environment where e-safety is part of the corporate business model, this book unveils the process through which established social media companies receive less government scrutiny than start-ups. The importance of this research for law and policy argues for an OA edition to ensure the work is widely and globally accessible to scholars and decision makers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101596

ISBN:

9780262344081