Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society by Barker, Kim; Jurasz, Olga;

Short description:

This handbook provides an international survey of social media and the law in society, blending academic, non-academic, and non-governmental expertise to provide a thematic overview of social media and the law across a number of jurisdictions. It is an essential resource for advanced students, researchers, academics and industry experts.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society provides an international survey of social media and the law in society, blending academic, non-academic and non-governmental expertise to provide a thematic overview of social media and the law across a number of jurisdictions.

Offering an international thematic view which examines social media and the law in the context of international research, the book addresses such topics as politics and social media, online safety developments and digital constitutionalism amongst a range of others. With contributions from experts across disciplines, the book is a topical contribution to the field, detailing online harms, fake news, misinformation and disinformation, hate speech and gender-based violence on social media. Additionally, the book covers social media, elections and electoral violence, feminist perspectives on social media, alongside children and social media, online safety, and responsibility and liability.

Providing an analysis of the full spectrum of current issues in social media and the law, the Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society is an essential resource for advanced students, researchers, academics and industry experts.

Table of Contents:

List of contributors

Introduction: social media, law and society

KIM BARKER AND OLGA JURASZ 

PART I  Reflections on law, society and social media

1 Social media, human rights and society 7

RIKKE FRANK JØRGENSEN

2 Regulating online harms Down Under: a contemporary assessment of law and society perspectives relating to social media platforms

HANNAH KLOSE

3 Masculine technologies and social media: the urgent need to identify, map, and combat new manifestations of gender-based violence

ANASTASIA KARAGIANNI

PART II  Social media, gender and democracy

4 Intersectionality and the problems of using artificial intelligence to address online gender-based violence and gendered disinformation

DHANARAJ THAKUR

5 Gender, disinformation, and social media – protecting women’s freedom of expression in the digital age

PAULA MARTINS

6 Social media, misinformation, and regulation in Southeast Asia: impacts on freedoms of expression and right to information

MICHAEL P. CAÑARES

7 State actors, disinformation, and social media: a new and dangerous chapter of lying in politics

ELIZA BECHTOLD

PART III  Social media, youth and harms

8 Centring young people’s accounts of digitally networked environments: a Canadian perspective

JANE BAILEY

9 Online child sexual abuse and the role of social media platforms in protecting children’s rights: a European perspective

SABINE K. WITTING AND MARK R. LEISER

10 Crime and social media in Croatia: an interdisciplinary analysis  

IGOR VULETIĆ AND GORAN LIVAZOVIĆ

PART IV  Regulating social media

11 The softer side of censorship: geo-blocking content on social media platforms

MACKENZIE F. COMMON

12 Regulation of social media in Singapore

CHEN SIYUAN AND NATALIA BEADLE

13 Protecting media content on social media platforms in the EU

LIDIA DUTKIEWICZ AND ALEKSANDRA KUCZERAWY

PART V  Social media and rights

14 Social media and digital constitutionalism

EDOARDO CELESTE

15 Platforms in the Brazilian civil rights framework for the internet: the need for progressive risk-based liability

DANIEL DIAS, LUCA BELLI, NICOLO ZINGALES, WALTER B. GASPAR AND YASMIN CURZI

16 Tackling cyber-violence, empowering users: assessing the impact of the Digital Services Act on social media due diligence

ELISABETTA STRINGHI

PART VI   Social media, harms and safety

17 Complex online harms and assuring user agency: content moderation and agency by design

BENJAMIN FARRAND

18 Online violence against women in politics and democratic harms

KIM BARKER AND OLGA JURASZ

19 What is the purpose of social media regulation, and is the Online Safety Act likely to meet it?

ELLEN JUDSON

PART VII  Technical capability and social media

20 Rediscovering interoperability: a vital tool to unlock the future of social media

SACHIN DHAWAN, FAWAZ SHAHEEN AND JHALAK M. KAKKAR

21 Accountability and regulation of digital speech infrastructures in the EU and beyond

ASAF WIENER

22 “It is a dangerous time for democracies”: on why we need to take social media and generative AI seriously

EIRLIANI ABDUL RAHMAN, GIULIA CAMPAIOLI, SARA DI BARTOLOMEO, BEATE OCHSNER, DANIEL KEIM AND LIANE WÖRNER