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Jannice Käll

Jannice Käll

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Jannice Käll

More-than-human rights to data

Author

  • Jannice Käll

Editor

  • Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa
  • Costas Douzinas

Summary, in English

Digitalization is continuously demanding new, or revitalized, rights. Recently, this can be seen in calls for privacy rights or data subjects’ rights to control ‘their’ data. In parallel to this development, there are also both theoretical and activist developments to expand the notion of rights all together, beyond a human/ist understanding of rights, into ‘more-than-human’ rights. In this chapter, it is outlined what a more-than-human rights concept could entail for data rights. To do so, a Deleuzian-Spinozan idea of rights is explored in connection with new materialist philosophies in general and new materialist media studies in particular. To conclude, it is suggested that a more layered understanding of the different elements producing, and sustaining, data, is needed to invoke more-than-human rights to data.

Department/s

  • Sociology of Law Department

Publishing year

2024-04-16

Language

English

Pages

189-205

Publication/Series

Non-Human Rights : Critical Perspectives

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Topic

  • Law
  • Media and Communication Studies
  • Philosophy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781802208528
  • ISBN: 9781802208511