Law Regulation and Governance in the Information Society

<p>This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies and to consider how law regulation and governance should be deployed in response.</p><p>New technologies and new applications constantly disrupt our values our framing of our world and our sense of where we are and who we are. In our ‘information societies’ we entertain mixed hopes and expectations as well as significant fears and concerns. At the root of these there are a number of informational interests on the basis of which certain rights are claimed and particular wrongs denounced. This book addresses these interests considering them as relating primarily to the integrity of the informational ecosystem to the accessibility accuracy and authenticity of public information and to our individual ability to control the outward and inward flows of information that relates directly to ourselves. Covering a wide range of subjects the book’s interrogation of our contemporary information society is oriented around two questions: first whether the information society in which we live is the kind of society that we think it should be and second if not what we can reasonably expect law regulation and governance to do in providing the basis for improving it.</p><p>This book will be of considerable interest to those working at the intersection of law and technology as well as others concerned with the legal political and social aspects of our information society.</p>