Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption

ISBN-13: 9783031459757 / Angielski

Minna Aslama Horowitz; Hannu Nieminen; Katja Lehtisaari

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Minna Horowitz, Hanna Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D'Arma.- Foundations.- 2. Why We Need Epistemic Rights; Hannu Nieminen.- 3. Mapping Epistemic Rights: An overview of comparative rankings; Irina Gregor and Minna Horowitz.- Concepts, Issues, Actors- 4. One the Need to Revalue Old and Construct New Radical Imaginaries to Assert Epistemic Media and Communication Rights; ​Bart Cammaerts.- 5. (Re-)casting Epistemic Rights as Human Rights: The challenges of conceptualisation, articulation and operationalisation; Tarlach McGonagle.- 6. Epistemic Rights and Digital Communications Policies: Tech politics after Piketty; Terry Flew.- 7. Epistemic Justice and Open Access Knowledge Dissemination; Anis Rahman, Heather Morrison and Tanoh Laurent Kako.- 8. Public Service Media as Enablers of Epistemic Rights; Alessandro D'Arma and Maria Michalis.- National and Regional Cases.- 9. Epistemic Struggles in Decolonial African Contexts; viola c. minton and Winston Mano.- 10. Balancing Rights to Information and Right to Data Protection in the Digital Era: The case of China; Yik Chan Chin.- 11. From Digital Divides to Digital Capital: How Russian media policy attempts to create new rights; Elena Vartanova.- 12. Erosion of Epistemic Rights: Conditions of journalism in Central and Eastern Europe; Marius Dragomir and Minna Horowitz.- 13. Nordic Illusion and Challenges for Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption; Riku Neuvonen, Katja Lehtisaari, Marko Ala-Fossi, Reeta Poyhtari, Jockum Hilden.- 14. Epistemic Rights and Right to Information to Brazil and Mexico; Fernando Oliveira Paulino and Luma Poletti Dutra.- Implications.- 15. Implications for Communication Scholarship.- 16. Conclusion: Epistemic transformations and policy implications; Minna Horowitz, Hanna Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D'Arma.

O autorze

Minna Aslama Horowitz is Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland, a Fellow at the Media and Journalism Research Centre, Spain, 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. Currently, he is also Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Katja Lehtisaari is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University, Finland, and Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Alessandro D'Arma is Reader in Media and Communication and Director of the CAMRI PhD Programme, University of Westminster, UK.

Blurb

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.

This book is open-access, meaning you have free and unlimited access.

Minna Aslama Horowitz is Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland, a Fellow at the Media and Journalism Research Centre, Spain, 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. Currently, he is also Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Katja Lehtisaari is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University, Finland, and Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Alessandro D'Arma is Reader in Media and Communication and Director of the CAMRI PhD Programme, University of Westminster, UK.