1st Edition

The Governance of Online Expression in a Networked World

Edited By Helena Carrapico, Benjamin Farrand Copyright 2016
140 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years, we have witnessed the mushrooming of pro- democracy and protest movements not only in the Arab world, but also within Europe and the Americas. Such movements have ranged from popular upheavals, like in Tunisia and Egypt, to the organization of large-scale demonstrations against unpopular policies, as in Spain, Greece and Poland. What connects these different events are not only... Read more

1. Networked Governance and the Regulation of Expression on the Internet: The Blurring of the Role of Public and Private Actors as Content Regulators  Benjamin Farrand and Helena Carrapico

2. Internet Content Regulation in France and Germany: Regulatory Paths, Actor Constellations, and Policies  Yana Breindl and Bjoern Kuellmer

3. Governing Internet Expression: How Public and Private Regulation Shape Expression Governance  Ben Wagner

4. Regulatory Capitalism, Decentered Enforcement, and its Legal Consequences for Digital Expression: The Use of Copyright Law to Restrict Freedom of Speech Online  Benjamin Farrand

5. Speaking for Freedom, Normalizing the Net?  Peter Jay Smith

6. Occupy Wall Street: A New Political Form of Movement and Community?  Michael J. Jensen and Henrik P. Bang

7. A Policymaking Process “Tug-of-War”: National Information Security Policies in Comparative Perspective  Kenneth Rogerson and Daniel Milton

Biography

Helena Carrapico is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University. Her research focuses on European Security, in particular cyber security and cyber crime.

Benjamin Farrand is Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde Law School. His research focuses on the interaction between law and politics in technology regulation.