Human Rights in the Age of Platforms

by Jillian York

Book Overview

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society.

Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039052
• ISBN13: 9780262039055
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"