1. IntroductionEdoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Amélie Heldt (Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Germany) and Clara Iglesias Keller (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) PART 1SOCIAL MEDIA AS A MODERN PUBLIC SQUARE
2. Social Media and Protest: Contextualising the Affordances of Networked Publics Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University, Ireland)
3. The Rise of Social Media in the Middle East and North Africa: A Tool of Resistance or Repression? Amy Kristin Sanders (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
4. Legal Framings in Networked Public Spheres: The Case of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean Veronica Corcodel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
5. Social Media and the News Industry Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
PART 2
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND PLATFORMS’ GOVERNANCE
6. Structural Power as a Critical Element of Social Media Platforms’ Private Sovereignty Luca Belli (FGV Direito Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
7. No Place for Women: Gaps and Challenges in Promoting Equality on Social Media Mariana Valente (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)
8. Social Media, Electoral Campaigns and Regulation of Hybrid Political Communication: Rethinking Communication Rights Eugenia Siapera and Niamh Kirk (both at University College Dublin, Ireland)
9. Data Protection Law: Constituting an Effective Framework for Social Media? Moritz Hennemann (Universität Passau, Germany) PART 3
STATES AND SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION
10. Regulatory Shift in State Intervention: From Intermediary Liability to Responsibility Giancarlo Frosio (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
11. Government–Platform Synergy and its Perils Niva Elkin-Koren (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
12. Social Media and State Surveillance in China: The Interplay between Authorities, Businesses and Citizens Yuner Zhu (City University of Hong Kong)
13. The Perks of Co-Regulation: An Institutional Arrangement for Social Media Regulation? Clara Iglesias Keller (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany)PART 4
CONSTITUTIONALISING SOCIAL MEDIA
14. Changing the Normative Order of Social Media from Within: Supervisory Bodies Wolfgang Schulz (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Germany)
15. Content Moderation by Social Media Platforms: The Importance of Judicial Review Amélie P Heldt (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Germany)
16. Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), Nicola Palladino (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Dennis Redeker (University of Bremen, Germany) and Kinfe Yilma (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)