DIRITTI E POLITICA NEL WEB

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Optional subjects
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
3
Period: 
First Trimestre
Standard lectures hours: 
20
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (20 hours)
Requirements: 

Students should have passed the Public Law exam

The final exam is written.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The Course aims to consolidate students' knowledge about the connection between the legal phenomenon and the dynamics of Internet. In particular, we will analyze the web governance tools and the related problem of protection of rights on the Net, starting from freedom of communication, with particular regard to the management of information circulating within social networks. Specific attention will also be given to the broad issue of e-democracy and digital citizenship, with a particular focus on new models of political participation that are emerging in our country, and the related prospects for the affirmation of a web democracy.

The course will analyse the following topics:
1. Digital citizenship (1 hour)
2. Free access to the Net (1 hour)
3. Internet governance (1 hour)
4. Net neutrality (1 hour)
5. Rights and responsibilities in the Net (2 hours)
6. Internet and democracy (3 hours)
7. Political parties and Internet (2 hours)
8. New media: nature and limits (4 hours)
9. Pluralism of information on the Net (1 hour)
10. E-administration (3 hours)
11. Fake news and hate speech (1 hour)

S. Rodotà, Il mondo nella rete. Quali i diritti, quali i vincoli, Laterza, 2014 (capitoli 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, Epilogo)
M. Mensi, P. Falletta, Il diritto del web, con prefazione di E. Albamonte, Cedam, 2018 (par. 4 del cap. I; capitoli VII, VIII, XIV)
Further reading material will be available on the e-learning platform

Convenzionale

Teaching method: twenty hours of lectures.

Seminars on specific issues

Professor office hours: Tuesday, from 12 a.m to 1 p.m. (room 24)

Professors