Informed Publics, Media and International Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5099-4558-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

This book considers the significance of informed publics from the perspective of international law. It does so by analysing international media law frameworks and the 'mediatization' of international law in institutional settings. This approach exposes the complexity of the interrelationship between international law and the media, but also points to the dangers involved in international law's associated and increasing reliance upon the mediated techniques of communicative capitalism - such as publicity - premised upon an informed international public whose existence many now question.

The book explores the ways in which traditional regulatory and analytical categories are increasingly challenged - revealed as inadequate or bypassed - but also assesses their resilience and future utility in light of significant technological change and concerns about fake news, the rise of big data and algorithmic accountability. Furthermore, it contends that analysing the imbrication of media and international law in the current digital transition is necessary to understand the nature of the problems a system such as international law faces without sufficiently informed publics.

The book argues that international law depends on informed global publics to function and to address the complex global problems which we face. This draws into view the role media plays in relation to international law, but also the role of international law in regulating the media, and reveals the communicative character of international law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joyce, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Media and Mediatization

II. The Imbrication of Media and International Law

III. Structure

1. Informed Publics

I. Informed Publics

II. Public Opinion and International Law

III. Cold War Debates Over Information and Media

IV. Contemporary Challenges

V. Summary

2. Free Publics

I. Freedom of Expression

II. Limits to Media Freedom

III. Licensing

IV. Defamation and Insult Laws

V. Contempt and the Protection of Sources

VI. National Security

VII. Privacy

VIII. Media Pluralism

IX. International Trade Law

X. Summary

3. Endangered Publics

I. Incitement, Hate Speech and Propaganda

II. International Criminal Law

III. International Humanitarian Law

IV. Information Intervention, Cybersecurity and Computational Propaganda

V. Summary

4. Digital Publics

I. Telecommunications

II. Internet Governance

III. A Human Rights Approach

IV. Data Governance

V. Platform Governance

VI. Summary

5. Publicity
I. Institutional Publicity

II. International Criminal Law

III. Human Rights and Witnessing

IV. Summary 7
6. The Critique of Publicity

I. Mediatization and Conflict

II. Visibility and Invisibility

III. Communicative Capitalism and Humanitarianism

IV. International Law, Media and Engaging Informed Publics
V. Summary

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Joyce, Daniel
Daniel Joyce is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, Australia, and Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.