Informed Publics, Media and International Law

Daniel Joyce is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, Australia, and Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Introduction I. Media and Mediatization II. The Imbrication of Media and International Law III. Structure 1. Informed Publics I. Informed Publics II. Public Opinion and International Law III. Cold War Debates Over Information and Media IV. Contemporary Challenges V. Summary 2. Free Publics I. Freedom of Expression II. Limits to Media Freedom III. Licensing IV. Defamation and Insult Laws V. Contempt and the Protection of Sources VI. National Security VII. Privacy VIII. Media Pluralism IX. International Trade Law X. Summary 3. Endangered Publics I. Incitement, Hate Speech and Propaganda II. International Criminal Law III. International Humanitarian Law IV. Information Intervention, Cybersecurity and Computational Propaganda V. Summary 4. Digital Publics I. Telecommunications II. Internet Governance III. A Human Rights Approach IV. Data Governance V. Platform Governance VI. Summary 5. PublicityI. Institutional Publicity II. International Criminal Law III. Human Rights and Witnessing IV. Summary 76. The Critique of Publicity I. Mediatization and Conflict II. Visibility and Invisibility III. Communicative Capitalism and Humanitarianism IV. International Law, Media and Engaging Informed PublicsV. Summary Conclusion

[The] authors invite scholars to look beyond justiciability and legal enforcement of human rights, to how the advancement of international human rights law could occur through grassroots advocacy for social justice and movements for social accountability.