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JUSTICE AND ORDER IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY: CONNECTING COMMUNICATIONS AND LEGAL THEORY

Preconference  for ICA 2019, Washington DC, Friday May 24, 2019 held at the University of Washington School of Law

Organized by: Nick Couldry (London School of Economics), Lina Dencik (Cardiff University), Karin van Es (Data School), and Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen)

The growth of automated data collection, processing and analysis, and its installation within contemporary social, economic and political orders has created a number of huge challenges: for protecting fundamental rights and values such as freedom and autonomy, for understanding the connections between communications and social order, for sustaining key institutional processes such as the law, and for maintaining the very legitimacy and authority of decision-making by legal, political and social institutions. At the core of these challenges is a more basic question: what happens to society when communications (in the novel form of datafication and, underlying that, automated symbolic categorizations within database structures) begin to play a historically new role in the organization of life? This question requires communication researchers to be in dialogue with researchers in law and policy to address this fundamental question of communication beyond borders.

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