The CORDI project aims at developing a rights-based approach to communication conceptually and in terms of its practical, legal, and regulatory implications. The project clarifies conceptually the debate on communication rights, maps different actors understanding of the current situation, and produces concrete policy solutions and suggestions that can be implemented in legal and administrative regulation of the new digital media environment.
Background
The project is structured around three research packages. The first research package analyzes the different conceptions that underlie current regulatory debates on issues ranging from the accountability of social media platforms to national media policies. The second research package analyzes challenges caused by digital disruption from the perspective of legacy media. The third research package is about challenges of social media and fake or counter- media.
Goal
The digital disruption of media and society has fundamentally changed citizens opportunities to access information and participate in public debates and democracy. The role of digital platforms in the exploitation of personal data, spread of disinformation, and other disorders of the public sphere have raised fears about the future of democracy, free expression, and our fundamental rights to privacy, dignity, and non-discrimination. The project studies these issues and tries to find solutions to the problems that are related to them.
Funding source
Academy of Finland
Contact persons
Esa Reunanen
Senior Researcher
esa.reunanen [at] tuni.fi
+358 50 318 5943
Juha Herkman
Professor
juha.herkman [at] helsinki.fi
+358 50 416 0424