The Technosystem of Free Speech

Enriching Fundamental Rights in a Digital Society

Christoph B. Graber (Autor)

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190 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009688307 (ISBN)

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This book explains how the fundamental right of freedom of expression is gradually being enriched to cover its technological prerequisites. The book brings together science and technology studies and Luhmann's systems theory and considers these sociological perspectives on law and technology in relation to legal practice.

In this book, Christoph Graber explains how the fundamental right of freedom of expression is gradually being enriched to cover its technological prerequisites. It challenges the predominant legal view that technology is merely an instrument, arguing that this overlooks the complex interplay between technological materiality and communicative sociality. It builds on a core argument of science and technology studies, that there is interpretative flexibility in both the design and social reception of a technology, which lays the groundwork for a critical stance towards smart technologies and the corporations that control them. This approach can then be transposed into the legal sphere via Luhmann's systems theory. This book shows how normative expectations about digital technologies are formed and develop into legal norms and fundamental rights. It argues that, in order to achieve the implementation of fundamental rights, it is important to recognise their dimension as objective value judgments of a constitution, which the state has a duty to protect.

Christoph B. Graber is Professor of Law, Chair for Legal Sociology with special focus on Media Law at the University of Zurich. He has been a visiting professor/scholar at leading universities in the USA, Australia and Italy and has published widely in monographs and high-impact journals.

1. Introduction; 2. Free speech and the 'digital constitution'; 3. Transnationalism or 'splinternet'?; 4. Network technology and the law: broadening our perspective; 5. Affordances of technology: locating technology in systems theory; 6. The digital means of free speech: normative evidence; 7. Fundamental rights, constitutional stability and social change; 8. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Law in Context
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781009688307 / 9781009688307
Zustand	Neuware