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Volume 9, Issue 3

Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance Geopolitics, jurisdiction and surveillance

Monique Mann, Deakin University
Angela Daly, University of Strathclyde
PUBLISHED ON: 16 Sep 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.3.1501

The internet is a forum for geopolitical struggle as states wield power beyond their terrestrial territorial borders through the extraterritorial geographies of data flows. This exertion of power across multiple jurisdictions, and via the infrastructure of transnational technology companies, creates new challenges for traditional forms of regulatory governance and the protection of human rights.

KEYWORDS: Surveillance, Power, Jurisdiction
Volume 9, Issue 2

Back up: can users sue platforms to reinstate deleted content?

Matthias C. Kettemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut
Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 4 Jun 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.2.1484

Can platforms delete whatever content they want? Not everywhere, say the authors of this paper, which shows why certain social networks ‘must carry’ some content – and how users in some jurisdictions can force the companies to allow them into their communicative space.

KEYWORDS: Platforms, Intermediaries, Private spaces, Courts, Indirect application of human rights
Volume 5, Issue 2

Sharing killed the AVMSD star: the impossibility of European audiovisual media regulation in the era of the sharing economy

Indrek Ibrus, Tallinn University
Ulrike Rohn, Tallinn University
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.419

The convergence of media markets and the emergence of video-sharing platforms may make the existing regulative tradition obsolete. This essay demonstrates an emergent need for regulatory convergence on European Union’s Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD).

KEYWORDS: Audiovisual media, Sharing economy, Video-sharing