1. Introduction Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Amelie Heldt (Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Germany) and Clara Iglesias Keller (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) -- Part 1 -- Social Media as a Modern Public Square -- 2. Social Media and Protest : Contextualising the Affordances of Networked Publics Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University, Ireland) -- 3. The Rise of Social Media in the Middle East and North Africa : A Tool of Resistance or Repression? Amy K Sanders (University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- 4. Social Media as Governance Tools in the Migration Crisis Veronica Corcodel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) -- 5. COVID-19, Social Media and the News Sector Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University, Ireland) -- Part 2 -- Fundamental Rights and Platforms' Governance -- 6. Structural Power as a Critical Element of Digital Platforms' Private Sovereignty Luca Belli (FGV Direito Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -- 7. Inequality and Gender on Social Media Platforms : A Constitutional Problem Mariana Valente (Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa de Sao Paulo, Brazil) -- 8. Social Media and Electoral Campaigns : Governance Issues in the Hybrid Media Era Eugenia Siapera and Niamh Kirk (both at University College Dublin, Ireland) -- 9. Data Protection Law -- Constituting Effective Ties for Social Media? Moritz Hennemann (Universitat Passau, Germany) -- Part 3 -- States and Social Media Regulation -- 10. Regulatory Shift in State Intervention : From Intermediary Liability to Responsibility Giancarlo Frosio (University of Strasbourg, France) -- 11. Government-Platform Synergy and its Perils Niva Elkin-Koren (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) -- 12. Social Media and State Surveillance in China : Analysing the Interplay between Authorities, Businesses and Citizens Yuner Zhu (City University of Hong Kong) -- 13. The Perks of Co-regulation : A Standard Institutional Arrangement for Online Regulation Clara Iglesias Keller (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) -- Part 4 -- Constitutionalising Social Media -- 14. Changing the Normative Order of Social Media from Within : Supervisory Bodies Wolfgang Schulz (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Germany) -- 15. Content Moderation by Social Media Platforms : The Importance of Judicial Review Amelie Heldt (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Germany) -- 16. Digital Constitutionalism : In Search of a Content Governance Standard Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Kinfe Yilma (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), Nicola Palladino (Dublin City University, Ireland) and Dennis Redeker (University of Bremen, Germany)
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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