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Human Rights in the Digital Age

Human Rights in the Digital Age

Hardcover

Series: Glasshouse S

AnthropologyGeneral LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138149039
ISBN13: 9781138149038
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Published: Sep 1 2016
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The digital age began in 1939 with the construction of the first digital computer. In the sixty-five years that have followed, the influence of digitisation on our everyday lives has grown steadily and today digital technology has a greater influence on our lives than at any time since its development. This book examines the role played by digital technology in both the exercise and suppression of human rights. The global digital environment has allowed us to reinterpret the concept of universal human rights. Discourse on human rights need no longer be limited by national or cultural boundaries and individuals have the ability to create new forms in which to exercise their rights or even to bypass national limitations to rights. The defence of such rights is meanwhile under constant assault by the newfound ability of states to both suppress and control individual rights through the application of these same digital technologies.

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