Social Media in Modern Society: Law, Regulation, and Rights

 

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded

 

Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor and whistleblower

Featured

FLJS investigates the nature of the Cyber-Society
Snowden revelations and NSA surveillance under scrutiny in FLJS book colloquium
The future of privacy at stake, argues media expert at launch of new programme in social media

Publications

Regulation of Digital Media Platforms: The case of China
In this policy brief, Dr Jufang Wang reviews China's regulation of digital media platforms against the backdrop of the party-state's concerns that
Reducing Online Harms through a Differentiated Duty of Care: A Response to the Online Harms White Paper
LSE media expert and Government adviser Damian Tambini argues that social media companies have a 'duty of care' to protect users from harms caused

Opinion

A Fundamental(ly) European ‘right to be forgotten’

Can the Internet ever ‘forget’ personal details about us?
Facebook, Big Data, and the Privatization of Justice in the Digital Age

The recent controversy over how Cambridge Analytica manipulated personal data gathered from Facebook has heightened the debate over the dangers...

Recent Podcasts

Governance of Public Opinion in the Age of Platforms: A Study of China

Jufang Wang, a former news editor in China and academic visitor at the BBC and Oxford University, offers insights into China’s news...