[acc-cca-l] Book Announcement: Digital Rights at the Periphery

[Guy Hoskins]

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Dear CCA colleagues,

I am very pleased to announce the release of my (first!) book, Digital Rights at the Periphery: Making Brazil's Marco Civil, published by the University of Illinois Press, in its Geopolitics of Information Series. It may be of interest to any of you whose research or teaching intersects with political economy, communication policy, digital rights and/or global media studies.

Description:

Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) appeared to offer pioneering legislation for a digital bill of rights that addressed issues like network neutrality and privacy. Hoskins chronicles the Marco Civil’s development and its failure to confront the greatest concentration of power in the digital age: informational capitalism. Combining interviews with discourse and political-economic analysis, Hoskins reveals why the legislation fell short while examining the implications of its emergence in Brazil,which remains on the margins of the global system of informational capitalism. He also shows why we must create systems sensitive to the sociocultural and political-economic contexts that will shape digital rights and their usefulness.

Compelling and contrarian, Digital Rights at the Periphery looks at communications policy and internet governance in the global South and the lessons they provide for the rest of the world.


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Reviews:

"Hoskins' brilliant book brings the dramatic story of the Marco Civil da Internet to English language audiences while offering a globally relevant, penetrating analysis of the tangled politics of rights, informational capitalism, and civil society. Essential reading."
 - Thomas Streeter, author of The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet

To purchase copies with a 30% discount, use promo code S25UIP at
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088773 <https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088773>

GUY T. HOSKINS is a postdoctoral fellow with the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project at Carleton University and a course instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Guy Hoskins
Post-Doctoral Fellow & Project Manager -
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project<https://gmicp.org/>
Course Instructor - Toronto Metropolitan University<https://www.ryerson.ca/next-chapter/>
Vice-chair - Communication, Policy & Technology section - IAMCR<https://iamcr.org/>
Ghoskins@<mailto:Ghoskins at ryerson.ca>torontomu.ca<http://torontomu.ca>
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