Human rights in the governance of digital platforms: introduction to the special issue

2025/10/02 by Jelena Belić, Matthew Canfield, Rachel Griffin +2 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies #Digital Economy and Work Transformation #Freedom of Expression and Defamation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/20414005.2025.2600781

openalex publication_date 2025/10/02 · openalex created_date 2025/12/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/17

Abstract

In the first decades of the twenty-first century, digitalisation and ‘platformisation’ have disrupted and even transformed many fields of economic, cultural and social life.1 Platforms can be defin...

Discussions

• happy to see the final version of this Transnational Legal Theory SI on critical views of human rights in platform governance, which I co-edited with Barrie Sander, @hlahmann.bsky.social, Matt Canfiel [bsky, 5 points, 1 comments]

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