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Privacy and the role of international law in the digital age /
No full textExamines the role of international law in securing privacy and data protection in the digital age, considering the impact of the boundaries of international privacy law, and the potential of global privacy initiatives
Comment: Some Remarks on Ethiopia’s New Cybercrime Legislation
No full textEthiopia has been enacting various pieces of legislation, since recently, to regulate some aspects of the digital environment. The Cybercrime Proclamation of 2016 (Computer Crime Proclamation No.958/2016) is the most recent addition to the legal regime that criminalizes a range of cybercrimes. It has also introduced a number of novel evidentiary and procedural rules that will assist in the investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes. The law has, however, attracted criticisms from various corners mainly owing to some of its human rights unfriendly provisions. This piece provides brief comments on the cybercrime legislation and highlights some of the challenges that lie ahead in the course of implementing the law.Key termsCybercrime, computer crime, the right to privacy, illegal online content, procedural justice, Ethiopia
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The internet and policy responses in Ethiopia ::new beginnings and uncertainties /
No full textCybercrime Lawmaking and Human Rights in Ethiopia
Full text linkEthiopia has embarked upon an ambitious project of revising a number of laws with a view to entrench human rights and democratic governance. Part of this legal reform program has been the revision of Computer Crime Proclamation No 958/2016. This article examines key aspects of the Draft Computer Crime Proclamation prepared by the Media Law Working Group from a human rights perspective. As it shall be shown in this article, making the cybercrime legal regime human rights friendly has been the overarching objective of the revision project. Most human rights concerns associated with the current cybercrime legislation are, as a result, rectified in the cybercrime Bill. However, the Bill goes overboard in embracing themes that go well beyond the scope of cybercrime legislation. With respect to the overall revision process, the article submits that the process has not been sufficiently inclusive
Privacy and the role of international law in the digital age /
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Reimaginando o constitucionalismo digital / Reimagining digital constitutionalism
Full text linkO constitucionalismo digital tem estado em voga nos
últimos anos. Uma série de artigos acadêmicos,
coletâneas e monografias que utilizam o termo-chave
proliferaram. Isso, por sua vez, inspirou um crescente
número de estudos críticos que questionam a coerência
normativa e teórica, bem como o valor epistêmico do
constitucionalismo digital. Os críticos lamentam o uso da
antiga noção de constitucionalismo para descrever o
que consideram ser meras iniciativas regulatórias e
autorregulatórias que não atendem aos seus mínimos
normativos essenciais bem estabelecidos. Ao retratar o
constitucionalismo digital sob essa ótica, esses críticos
o apresentam como um projeto impulsionado, ou mesmo
capturado, por atores do setor privado, a saber, as
grandes plataformas digitais. Este artigo busca desafiar
e trazer nuances a essas recentes críticas contundentes
ao constitucionalismo digital. Ao situar suas origens e
evolução no movimento das cartas de direitos digitais,
sustenta a necessidade de reimaginar o
constitucionalismo digital como um discurso. Assim, o
artigo espera reabilitar e esclarecer o papel e o valor
epistêmico do constitucionalismo digital como um
discurso incipiente, gradual e fundamentalmente
exortativo. De modo inovador, argumenta que enquadrar
o constitucionalismo digital como discurso descreve com
precisão suas dimensões ontológicas e normativas, ao
mesmo tempo em que responde às preocupações de
seus detratores.
Digital constitutionalism has been in vogue in recent
years.A series of journal articles, edited collections and
monographs that front the catch term have mushroomed.
This has, in turn, inspired a growing body of critical
scholarship that questions the normative and theoretical
coherence as well as epistemic value of digital
constitutionalism. Critics deplore the use of the age-old
notion of constitutionalism to describe what they
consider to be mere regulatory and self-regulatory
initiatives which do not meet its well-established core
normative minimums. In casting digital constitutionalism
in this light, critics present it as a Project driven primarily
or hijacked by private sector actors, namely big digital
platforms. This article seeks to challenge and bring some
nuance to such recent sharp criticisms of digital
constitutionalism. By positioning its origins and evolution
in the digital bill of rights movement, it makes the case
for reimagining digital constitutionalism as a discourse.
The article thus hopes to rehabilitate and clarify the role
and epistemic value of digital constitutionalism as a
discourse that is an inchoate, gradualist and
fundamentally hortatory. In a novel approach, it argues
that framing digital constitutionalism as a discourse
depicts accurately its ontological and normative
dimensions but also attends to the concerns of its
detractors
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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