Edited by Edited by Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D'Arma, Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption is the 21st title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research.
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This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In today's complex era of digital disruption, it is not enough to simply speak about communication or even digital rights. The starting point for this volume is the need for 'epistemic equality'.
The contributors seek to showcase the history and diversity of current debates around communication and digital rights, as precursors for the need for epistemic rights; both as a theoretical concept and an empirically assessed benchmark. The book highlights scholarship via academic case studies from around the world to feature different issues and methodological approaches, as well as similarities in academic and policy challenges across the globe.
The goal is to provide an overview of issues that depict challenges to epistemic rights, extract both academic and applied policy implications of different approaches, and end with a set of recommendations for advancing policy-relevant scholarship on epistemic rights. This volume is intended as the first holistic response to an urgent need to address epistemic rights of communication as a central public policy issue, as an academic analytical concept, as well as a central theme for informed public debate.
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This book:
- Offers a comprehensive introduction to epistemic rights as a central public policy issue
- Features analyses of epistemic rights both as a theoretical concept and as empirical cases
- Demonstrates the impact of epistemic inequality on the crisis of democracy
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Minna Aslama Horowitz is Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland, a Fellow at the Media and Journalism Research Centre, UK, and St. John’s University, New York, USA.
Hannu Nieminen is Professor Emeritus of media and communications policy, at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Professor of Communication, at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.
Katja Lehtisaari is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University, Finland, Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and Chair of IAMCR's Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Group.
Alessandro D'Arma is Reader in Media and Communication and Director of the CAMRI PhD Programme, University of Westminster, UK.
Contents
Foundations
Introduction: The Epistemic Turn
Alessandro D’Arma, Minna Aslama Horowitz, Katja Lehtisaari, Hannu Nieminen
Why We Need Epistemic Rights
Hannu Nieminen
Concepts and Issues
On the Need to Revalue Old Radical Imaginaries to Assert Epistemic Media and Communication Rights Today
Bart Cammaerts
Epistemic Rights, Information Inequalities, and Public Policy
Philip M. Napoli
(Re-)casting Epistemic Rights as Human Rights: Conceptual Conundrums for the Council of Europe
Tarlach McGonagle
Epistemic Rights and Digital Communications Policies: Collective Rights and Digital Citizenship
Terry Flew
Public Service Media: From Epistemic Rights to Epistemic Justice
Maria Michalis, Alessandro D’Arma
National and Regional Cases
Towards Feminist Futures in the Platform Economy: Four Stories from India
Anita Gurumurthy
Epistemic Rights and Right to Information in Brazil and Mexico
Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Luma Poletti Dutra
Digital Authoritarianism and Epistemic Rights in the Global South: Unpacking Internet Shutdowns in Zimbabwe
Tendai Chari
Epistemic Violators: Disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Marius Dragomir, Minna Aslama Horowitz
Nordic Illusion and Challenges for Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Media
Reeta Pöyhtäri, Riku Neuvonen, Marko Ala-Fossi, Katja Lehtisaari, Jockum Hildén
Right to Data Access in the Digital Era: The Case of China
Yik Chan Chin
Implications
Conclusion: Ubiquitous Need for Epistemic Rights and the Way Forward
Lani Watson, Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari, Alessandro D’Arma
The above text is from the publisher's description of the book.
Title: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption
Editors: Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D'Arma
Published: 2024
Pages: 226