Constitutionalising Social Media

Author: Edoardo Celeste; Amélie Heldt; Clara Iglesias Keller
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509953745

Published In: December 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509953707

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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.

1. Introduction

Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Amélie 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. Legal Framings in Networked Public Spheres: The Case of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean

Veronica Corcodel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

5. Social Media and the News Industry

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. No Place for Women: Gaps and Challenges in Promoting Equality on Social Media

Mariana Valente (Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa de São Paulo, Brazil)

8. Social Media, Electoral Campaigns and Regulation of Hybrid Political Communication: Rethinking Communication Rights

Eugenia Siapera and Niamh Kirk (both at University College Dublin, Ireland)

9. Data Protection Law: Constituting Effective Ties for Social Media?

Moritz Hennemann (Universität 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: The Interplay between Authorities, Businesses and Citizens

Yuner Zhu (City University of Hong Kong)

13. The Perks of Co-Regulation: An Institutional Arrangement for Social Media 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

Amélie 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)