Oct 17, 2017 | Ethics, Internet regulation
The 5th interdisciplinary Conference on Trust, Risk, Information & the Law will be held on 25 April 2018 at the Holiday Inn, Winchester UK. Our overall theme for this conference will be: “Public Law, Politics and the Constitution: A new battleground between...
Oct 10, 2017 | Data Privacy, Government policy, Internet regulation
In this guest post, Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast Daithí Mac Síthigh reviews the recent Information Law and Policy Centre seminar that explored Internet intermediaries and their legal role and obligations. Taking stock of recent...
Sep 13, 2017 | Freedom of expression, Internet regulation, News media, Social Media
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog are invited to submit a call for papers for the Global Fake News and Defamation Symposium on the theme of ‘Fake News and Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives’ Concept Note: The notion of “fake...
Sep 8, 2017 | Children, Ethics, Internet regulation, Social Media
Facebook Watch. Facebook In this guest post, Harry T Dyer, University of East Anglia, looks into the complicated relationship between social media and young people. His article is relevant to the Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual conference coming up in...
Sep 4, 2017 | Children, Ethics, Social Media
In this guest post, Dr Natalia Kucirkova, UCL and Professor Sonia Livingstone, (London School of Economics and Political Science), explore ‘screen time’ as an outdated term and why we need to recognise the power of learning through screen-based...
