The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights

The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights
Author: Mart Susi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009407732

Susi offers a novel non-coherence theory of digital human rights. It explains the change in meaning and scope of human rights rules, principles, ideas and concepts, and the interrelationships and related actors, when moving from the physical domain into the online domain.

The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights

The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights
Author: Mart Susi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009407686

Susi offers a novel non-coherence theory of digital human rights to explain the change in meaning and scope of human rights rules, principles, ideas and concepts, and the interrelationships and related actors, when moving from the physical domain into the online domain. The transposition into the digital reality can alter the meaning of well-established offline human rights to a wider or narrower extent, impacting core concepts such as transparency, legal certainty and foreseeability. Susi analyses the 'loss in transposition' of some core features of the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The non-coherence theory is used to explore key human rights theoretical concepts, such as the network society approach, the capabilities approach, transversality, and self-normativity, and it is also applied to e-state and artificial intelligence, challenging the idea of the sameness of rights. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice
Author: Molly K. Land
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1107179637

Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as Open Access.

The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights

The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
Author: Andreas von Arnauld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 939
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108751172

The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, monographs on 'new' rights often deal with structural matters only in passing and the issue of 'new' human rights has received only cursory attention in literature. By bringing together a large number of emergent human rights, analysed by renowned human rights experts from around the world, and combining the analyses with theoretical approaches, this book fills this lacuna. The comprehensive and dialectic approach, which enables insights from individual rights to overarching theory and vice versa, will ensure knowledge growth for generalists and specialists alike. The volume goes beyond a purely legal analysis by observing the contestation, rhetorics, the struggle for recognition of 'new' human rights, thus speaking to human rights professionals beyond the legal sphere.

Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age

Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age
Author: Frďřic Bernard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021
Genre: Digital communications
ISBN: 9781509938865

"This book examines the tangled responsibilities of states, companies, and individuals towards human rights in the digital age. Digital technologies have a huge impact - for better and worse - on human lives; while they can clearly enhance some human rights, they also facilitate a wide range of violations. States are expected to implement efficient measures against powerful private companies, but, at the same time, they are drawn to technologies that extend their own control over citizens. Tech companies are expected to prevent violations committed online by their users, but their own business models depend on the accumulation and exploitation of users' personal data. While civil society has a crucial part to play in upholding human rights, it is also the case that individuals harm other individuals online. All three stakeholders need to ensure that technology does not provoke the disintegration of human rights. Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, including law, IT, philosophy, international relations, and journalism, this book provides a detailed analysis of the impact of digital technologies on human rights that will be of interest to academics, research students and professionals concerned by this issue."--

Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies

Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies
Author: Akrivopoulou, Christina M.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1466608927

Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies explores the emergence and evolution of ‘digital’ rights that challenge and transform more traditional legal, political, and historical understandings of human rights. Academic and legal scholars will explore individual, national, and international democratic dilemmas--sparked by economic and environmental crises, media culture, data collection, privatization, surveillance, and security--that alter the way individuals and societies think about, regulate, and protect rights when faced with new challenges and threats. The book not only uncovers emerging changes in discussions of human rights, it proposes legal remedies and public policies to mitigate the challenges posed by new technologies and globalization.

Digital Constitutionalism in Europe

Digital Constitutionalism in Europe
Author: Giovanni De Gregorio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316512770

How to protect rights and limit powers in the algorithmic society? This book searches for answers in European digital constitutionalism.

Human Rights and Digital Technology

Human Rights and Digital Technology
Author: Susan Perry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-12-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781137588043

Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame our intelligent use of technology. The authors address such pressing questions as how to protect user privacy online, whether digital pollution is a health hazard, who should have control and be responsible for data technologies and how to maintain human autonomy in a world of interconnected objects. By considering specific cases, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the many regulatory and technological choices citizens, states, civil society organizations and the private sector should consider to ensure that digital technology more fully serves human needs.

The New Walford

The New Walford
Author: Ray Lester
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781856044981

Covers 15 broad subject groupings: social sciences (generic); psychology; sociology; social work & social welfare; politics; government; law; finance, accountancy & taxation; industries & utilities; business & management; education & learning; sport; media & communications; information & library sciences; and tools for information professionals.

Coherence in Thought and Action

Coherence in Thought and Action
Author: Paul Thagard
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002-07-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262700924

This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications. Much of human cognition can be understood in terms of coherence as constraint satisfaction, and many of the central problems of philosophy can be given coherence-based solutions. Thagard shows how coherence can help to unify psychology and philosophy, particularly when addressing questions of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. He also shows how coherence can integrate cognition and emotion.