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Despoti online: En tematisk analys av Twitters regelverk utifrån Fuller och Bourdieu.

Marklund, Joakim LU (2021) RÄSK02 20211
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract
As our lives ever increasingly move online, the influence of social media is constantly growing. It has however proven difficult for legislators to keep up with rapid development of online spaces. Therefore, legislative control has largely been left to the social media platforms. To see if this is a good solution, this paper aims to analyze Twitters terms of use, rules, guidelines, and policies, in order to see how they measure up to established legal principles such as due process, equality under the law, and the rule of law as well as desiderata taken from the writings of Lon Fuller. As a result of a thematic analysis with theories from Lon Fuller and Pierre Bourdieu as well as themes based in legal principles, some glaring problems... (More)
As our lives ever increasingly move online, the influence of social media is constantly growing. It has however proven difficult for legislators to keep up with rapid development of online spaces. Therefore, legislative control has largely been left to the social media platforms. To see if this is a good solution, this paper aims to analyze Twitters terms of use, rules, guidelines, and policies, in order to see how they measure up to established legal principles such as due process, equality under the law, and the rule of law as well as desiderata taken from the writings of Lon Fuller. As a result of a thematic analysis with theories from Lon Fuller and Pierre Bourdieu as well as themes based in legal principles, some glaring problems within both Twitters terms of use and the rules, guidelines and policies that regulate behavior could be uncovered. The most common problem being a lack of clarity that risks alienating large portions of the userbase from a clear understanding of the rules that govern them. Most troubling however is the despotic nature of the twitter system of rules. The paper concludes with some suggestions on how the legislation of online spaces could improve. (Less)
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Marklund, Joakim LU
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RÄSK02 20211
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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Desiderata, Legal principles, Lon Fuller, Pierre Bourdieu, Social media
language
Swedish
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9048735
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2021-07-07 12:57:12
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2021-07-07 12:57:12
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  abstract     = {{As our lives ever increasingly move online, the influence of social media is constantly growing. It has however proven difficult for legislators to keep up with rapid development of online spaces. Therefore, legislative control has largely been left to the social media platforms. To see if this is a good solution, this paper aims to analyze Twitters terms of use, rules, guidelines, and policies, in order to see how they measure up to established legal principles such as due process, equality under the law, and the rule of law as well as desiderata taken from the writings of Lon Fuller. As a result of a thematic analysis with theories from Lon Fuller and Pierre Bourdieu as well as themes based in legal principles, some glaring problems within both Twitters terms of use and the rules, guidelines and policies that regulate behavior could be uncovered. The most common problem being a lack of clarity that risks alienating large portions of the userbase from a clear understanding of the rules that govern them. Most troubling however is the despotic nature of the twitter system of rules. The paper concludes with some suggestions on how the legislation of online spaces could improve.}},
  author       = {{Marklund, Joakim}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Despoti online: En tematisk analys av Twitters regelverk utifrån Fuller och Bourdieu.}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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