Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
The first part of the book focuses on datafication and data economics. These are two concepts that cover the private data of citizens today, both commercially and politically, and that data constitute a new and rapidly growing economy.
SOUND: Listen to some of the authors of the book from the book launch event Feb 4th 2020 (in English). Recorded by Anders Kjærulff.
The second part of the book zooms in on the platform's practices and how they enforce human rights boundaries, based on their business terms(ToS). At the same time, the price and terms are intransparent to the individual.
The last part of the book focuses on how the protection of human rights can be strengthened in the digital space.
Contributing to the book are, among others, Shoshana Zuboff, author of the very popular book 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' (2019).
The book is edited by Senior Researcher, Rikke Frank Jørgensen who also wrote one of the chapters.
SOUND: Listen to interview with editor of the book and Senior Researcher, Rikke Frank Jørgensen (in Danish). Recorded by Anders Kjærulff.
The book is published by MIT Press and available for all in open access.
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