Governing Hate Content Online: How the Rechtsstaat Shaped the Policy Discourse on the NetzDG in Germany

IF 1.9 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

International Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-06-29 DOI:10.5167/UZH-188366

Danya He

引用次数: 5

Abstract

States around the world are struggling with illegal and hate content online. As one of the first Western democracies to do so, Germany passed the Act to Improve Enforcement of the Law in Social Networks (NetzDG) to tackle illegal and hate content online. The idea of the Rechtsstaat played a decisive role in the preceding policy discourse . Building on discursive institutionalism, this study analyzes how different actors used the Rechtsstaat to support or oppose the NetzDG. For this, it conducted a thematic analysis of 68 documents produced during the policy-making process in Germany from 2015 to 2017. The study shows that political actors used five different facets of the Rechtsstaat idea to support or oppose the NetzDG.

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管理在线仇恨内容:Rechtsstaat如何塑造德国NetzDG的政策话语

世界各国都在与网上的非法和仇恨内容作斗争。作为最早这样做的西方民主国家之一，德国通过了《改善社交网络法律执行法案》(NetzDG)，以解决网络上的非法和仇恨内容。德意志帝国的概念在之前的政策论述中发挥了决定性作用。在话语制度主义的基础上，本研究分析了不同的行动者是如何利用国家来支持或反对网络发展目标的。为此，它对2015年至2017年德国政策制定过程中产生的68份文件进行了专题分析。该研究表明，政治行为者使用了帝国理念的五个不同方面来支持或反对NetzDG。

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International Journal of Communication COMMUNICATION-

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