Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society

List of contributors

Preface

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

Biography

Kim Barker is Professor of Law at the University of Lincoln (UK) and a Council of Europe expert. Her expertise is in responses to technology-facilitated violence against women, including online violence, online harms and online safety across a multitude of online spaces including social media, online games and eSports.

Olga Jurasz is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Protecting Women Online at the Open University. Her research expertise is in legal responses to violence against women (including online violence), online harms and feminist approaches to governance of online spaces.