Framing human rights: exploring storytelling within internet companies

Jørgensen, Rikke Frank

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2017.1289233

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“…The analysis draws in part on empirical data collected as part of a twoyear research project on the commercialized public sphere (Jørgensen 2017a(Jørgensen , 2017b. The research project relied on a context-oriented qualitative approach, including publicly available statements from the two companies, terms of service, and policies, as well as semistructured interviews with company staff, primarily in Europe and the United States.…”

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Rights Talk: In the Kingdom of Online Giants

Jørgensen¹

2019

Human Rights in the Age of Platforms

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Rights Talk: In the Kingdom of Online Giants

Jørgensen¹

2019

Human Rights in the Age of Platforms

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“…Studies of the corporate policies of Google and Facebook and statements by their corporate heads show a rhetoric that stresses the power of technology to make the world a better place, provide information, and address social issues and inequalities (e.g. Fuchs, 2016;Hoffmann et al, 2018;Jørgensen, 2018;Van Dijck et al, 2018). According to this vision, free flow of information is believed to empower individuals and strengthen freedom of expression.…”

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“Crazy Jack” and the “Gay CEO”: Visions, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese State in the New Digital Economy

Svensson

2021

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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This article analyses the visions, careers, and companies of Jack Ma of Alibaba and Geng Le of Blue City. Jack Ma is a well-known business leader and visionary, whereas the less well-known Geng Le only began to receive more attention since launching a successful gay dating app in 2012. The article focuses on the personal narratives and visions of these two IT entrepreneurs. It provides new perspectives on the role of individual entrepreneurs in relation to the Chinese state’s global ambitions and vision of creating a “strong internet country.” It argues that the commercialisation and platformisation of the Chinese internet, and the growing transnational nature of Chinese IT companies, serve to make them more, not less, co-dependent of the state and its visions. The internet’s emancipatory potential is today increasingly conflated with consumption, and online spaces and social relations are subject to both commodification and datafication.

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“…Research on Facebook's human rights approach suggests that the company tends to focus on its role vis-à-vis suppressive states and less on the human rights impacts of its own business practices; for example, its enforcement of community standards (Jørgensen, 2017;Ranking Digital Rights, 2019). The focus on state overreach is not surprising, as these cases have attracted much attention in public debate.…”

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Private Governance of Freedom of Expression on Social Media Platforms: EU content regulation through the lens of human rights standards

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Zuleta

2020

Nordicom Review

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For years, social media platforms have been perceived as a democratic gain, facilitating freedom of expression, easy access to a variety of information, and new means of public participation. At the same time, social media have enabled the dissemination of illegal content and incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence, fuelling several content regulation initiatives. From the perspective of freedom of expression, this development embraces two challenges: first, private actors govern freedom of expression, without human rights safeguards; second, this privatised governance of human rights is encouraged and legitimised by a broad range of EU policy initiatives. Informed by an analysis of Danish Facebook users’ attitudes toward public debate on Facebook, we pose the question: How do social media companies such as Facebook balance various human rights considerations on their platforms, particularly in relation to freedom of expression? We analyse the abovementioned challenges through a human rights lens, which serves as the analytical framework for this article. Further, we suggest some strategies for moving forward, drawing on recent recommendations from the UN human rights system.

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Framing human rights: exploring storytelling within internet companies

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Rights Talk: In the Kingdom of Online Giants

Rights Talk: In the Kingdom of Online Giants

“Crazy Jack” and the “Gay CEO”: Visions, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese State in the New Digital Economy

Private Governance of Freedom of Expression on Social Media Platforms: EU content regulation through the lens of human rights standards

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