Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society

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.

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.

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 VULETIC AND GORAN LIVAZOVIC 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 Index