The Right Not to Use the Internet

Concept, Contexts, Consequences
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86631-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Current Debates in European Integration

This pioneering collection addresses the prospective fundamental/human right not to use the internet and the challenges that the non-use of the internet poses for democracy.

As the internet has increasingly ceased to be a mere option and rather turned into a de facto obligation for anyone who exercises their rights or fulfils duties, these developments bring about profound ramifications for the very existence and the functioning of democracy, and therefore merit a critical reflection. With contributors from academia and legal practice from all over Europe, this edited volume offers timely critical analysis of the right not to use of the internet, at times supplemented with policy advice and postulates for law reform.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of – predominantly – law, political science and philosophy as well as to policymakers, judges and non-governmental organisations at national, supranational and international levels.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kloza, Dariusz

Kuzelewska, Elzbieta

Lievens, Eva

Verdoodt, Valerie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: The concept and its consequences  1. Ethical meditations for a human right to an analogue life  2. An attempt to conceptualise the right to access the internet and its impact on the right not to use it  3. Framing the right not to use the Internet  4. Human Rights and Digital Divide: Recent developments in the Case Law of the Belgian Council of State  5. Is There a Right to be Offline ‘For No Reason’ in France?  6. The Right Not to Use the Internet: Towards a Negative Digital Freedom in Polish Law  7. Non-Use of the Internet as human rights enabler? The curious cases of the right to privacy and the right to health  8. Digital Disconnection as a Plight or Right? A Manifesto to Re-Imagine Digital Disconnection as a Reasonable Accommodation  Part 2: Contexts  9. Right not to use the internet: Lessons to be learned from the right not to be subject to automated decisions  10. The meaning of the limitation of the use of the Internet for criminal punishment from the perspective of extended mind thesis  11. Digitalization in Public Services in Belgium: Enshrining the right not to use the Internet in the Constitution  12. Is the dematerialisation of public services an elective progress? A sociological analysis of the (non)uses of older people in France  13. The Ethics of Choosing Not to Use the Internet: A Comparative Case Study of the Education and Healthcare Sectors in Slovakia and Sweden  14. The right not to use Internet to play videogames  15. An exploration of the child's right not to use the internet: disentangling from the digital web

Über Autor(innen)

Dariusz Kloza is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law of UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Belgium.

Elzbieta Kuzelewska is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University Bialystok, Poland.

Eva Lievens is an Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, Belgium.

Valerie Verdoodt is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, Belgium.