[Air-L] new: special issue on 'Internet Architecture & Human Rights'

[Milan, Stefania]

Dear AoiR friends and colleagues

We are very excited to announce the publication of a Special Issue of the journal Policy & Internet on Internet Architecture and Human Rights.
Edited by Monika Zalnieriute (Allens Hub for Technology, UNSW Sydney, Australia) and myself, issue 11(1) explores what we call the "human rights gap¡± whereby "the delegation of human rights enforcement to private actors circumvents both international human rights law, and often domestic laws and constitutions as well". Said human rights gap is the consequence of the "vacuum which occurs when human rights are public [¡­] and the Internet architecture¡ªthrough which human rights online are largely mediated and governed today¡ªis mainly privately owned or privately operated¡± (Zalnieriute & Milan, p. 8).

We explore this claim with the help of stellar contributions, as follows:

Samantha Bradshaw & Laura DeNardis: Privacy by Infrastructure: The Unresolved Case of the Domain Name System
Niels ten Oever: Productive Contestation, Civil Society, and Global Governance: Human Rights as a Boundary Object in ICANN
Milton L. Mueller & Farzaneh Badiei: Requiem for a Dream: On Advancing Human Rights via Internet Architecture
Nicolas Suzor, Molly Dragiewicz, Bridget Harris, Rosalie Gillett, Jean Burgess & Tess Van Geelen: Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender©\Based Violence Online
Ben Wagner: Liable, but Not in Control? Ensuring Meaningful Human Agency in Automated Decision©\Making Systems

To read, follow this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19442866/2019/11/1

Enjoy! Best, Stefania and Monika

Stefania Milan
Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net