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Karppinen (2017) Deconstructing Digital Rights: Promises and Problems of Rights-Based Politics
Deconstructing Digital Rights: Promises and Problems of Rights-Based Politics
by Kari Karppinen, University of Helsinki
Paper presented at the Nordmedia 2017 conference, Political communication division Tampere 17-19 August 2017
There are a range of concrete policy and legal issues that currently raise human rights concerns related to issues, such as net neutrality, copyright and piracy, surveillance and privacy, data protection, and content filtering. Aside from specific legal issues, human rights principles also bear upon broader concerns about the structure and future development and governance of digital media, such as equal access to the internet, or the problems associated with the “structural power” of dominant internet platforms and corporations who increasingly control data flows (e.g. Horten 2016).
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Published in Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights (2017), edited by H. Tumber & S. Waisbord.
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Speaking engagements
- Political Studies Association Anti-politics Group February 2020
- European Parliament Micro-targetting & Profiling Event November 2019
- Council of Europe Workshop on Internet Intermediaries, Tbilisi December 2018
- Post Brexit International Trade - Maidenhead Chamber of Commerce Feb 2018
- GDPR & Brexit Presentation BCS - EuroCIO Event April 2018
Published work
- Algorithms Patrolling Content: Where’s the Harm?
- Content responsibility: The looming cloud of uncertainty for Internet intermediaries
- Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Standards and Private Online Censorship
- The Policy Challenge Of Content Restrictions: How Private Actors Engage The Duties Of States
- Internet Policy Review - The Aereo dilemma and copyright in the cloud
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