Description
This book explores to what extent constitutional principles are put under strain in the social media environment, and how constitutional safeguards can be established for the actors and processes that govern this world: in other words, how to constitutionalise social media.
Millions of individuals around the world use social media to exercise a broad range of fundamental rights. However, the governance of online platforms may pose significant threats to our constitutional guarantees. The chapters in this book bring together a multi-disciplinary group of experts from law, political science, and communication studies to examine the challenges of constitutionalising what today can be considered the modern public square.
The book analyses the ways in which online platforms exercise a sovereign authority within their digital realms, and sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between social media platforms and state regulators. The chapters critically examine multiple methods of constitutionalising social media, arguing that the constitutional response to the global challenges generated by social media is necessarily plural and multilevel. All topics are presented in an accessible way, appealing to scholars and students in the fields of law, political science and communication studies.
The book is an essential guide to understanding how to preserve constitutional safeguards in the social media environment.
Author: Edoardo Celeste
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781509953707
ISBN10: 1509953701
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Computer & Internet
- Law | Media & the Law
- Law | Constitutional
Millions of individuals around the world use social media to exercise a broad range of fundamental rights. However, the governance of online platforms may pose significant threats to our constitutional guarantees. The chapters in this book bring together a multi-disciplinary group of experts from law, political science, and communication studies to examine the challenges of constitutionalising what today can be considered the modern public square.
The book analyses the ways in which online platforms exercise a sovereign authority within their digital realms, and sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between social media platforms and state regulators. The chapters critically examine multiple methods of constitutionalising social media, arguing that the constitutional response to the global challenges generated by social media is necessarily plural and multilevel. All topics are presented in an accessible way, appealing to scholars and students in the fields of law, political science and communication studies.
The book is an essential guide to understanding how to preserve constitutional safeguards in the social media environment.
Author: Edoardo Celeste
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781509953707
ISBN10: 1509953701
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Computer & Internet
- Law | Media & the Law
- Law | Constitutional
About the Author
Edoardo Celeste is Assistant Professor in Law, Technology and Innovation at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University, Ireland.
Amélie Heldt is Associated Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research (Hans-Bredow-Institut), Germany.
Clara Iglesias Keller is Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin), Germany.