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.
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.
Introduction: Social Media, Law and Society
Part I: Reflections on Law, Society and Social Media
1. Social Media, Human Rights and Society
2. Regulating Online Harms Down Under: A Contemporary Assessment of Law and
Society Perspectives Relating to Social Media Platforms
3. Masculine Technologies and Social Media: The Urgent Need to Identify, Map
and Combat New Manifestations of Gender-Based Violence
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
5. Gender, Disinformation and Social Media - Protecting Womens Freedom of
Expression in the Digital Age
6. Social Media, Misinformation, and Regulation in Southeast Asia: Impacts on
Freedoms of Expression and Right to Information
7. State Actors, Disinformation, and Social Media: A New and Dangerous
Chapter of Lying in Politics
Part III: Social Media, Youth and Harms
8. Centring Young Peoples Accounts of Digitally Networked Environments: A
Canadian Perspective
9. Online Child Sexual Abuse and the Role of Social Media Platforms in
Protecting Children's Rights: A European Perspective
10. Crime and Social Media in Croatia: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Part IV: Regulating Social Media
11. The Softer Side of Censorship: Geo-blocking Content on Social Media
Platforms
12. Regulation of Social Media in Singapore
13. Protecting media content on social media platforms in the EU
Part V: Social Media and Rights
14. Social Media and Digital Constitutionalism
15. Platforms in the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet: The
need for progressive risk-based liability
16. Tackling Cyber-Violence, Empowering Users: Assessing the Impact of the
Digital Services Act on Social Media Due Diligence
Part VI: Social Media, Harms and Safety
17. Complex Online Harms and Assuring User Agency: Content Moderation and
Agency by Design
18. Online Violence Against Women in Politics and Democratic Harms
19. What is the Purpose of Social Media Regulation, and is the Online Safety
Act likely to Meet it?
Part VII: Technical Capability and Social Media
20. Rediscovering Interoperability: A Vital Tool to Unlock the Future of
Social Media
21. Accountability and Regulation of Digital Speech Infrastructures in the EU
and Beyond
22. It Is a Dangerous Time for Democracies: On Why We Need to take Social
Media and Generative AI Seriously
Kim Barker is Professor of Law at the University of Lincoln (UK) and a Council of Europe expert. Her expertise is 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.
