Epistemic rights in the era of digital disruption

Minna Aslama Horowitz is Docent at the University of Helsinki, a Fellow at the Media and Journalism Research Centre, Spain, and St. John’s University, New York. Hannu Nieminen is Professor Emeritus of media and communications policy, at the University of Helsinki, and Professor of Communication, at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Currently, he is also Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Katja Lehtisaari is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Tampere University, Finland, and Docent at the University of Helsinki. Alessandro D'Arma is Reader in Media and Communication and Director of the CAMRI PhD Programme, University of Westminster, UK.

1. Introduction; Minna Horowitz, Hanna Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D'Arma.- Foundations.- 2. Why We Need Epistemic Rights; Hannu Nieminen.- 3. Mapping Epistemic Rights: An overview of comparative rankings; Irina Gregor and Minna Horowitz.- Concepts, Issues, Actors- 4. One the Need to Revalue Old and Construct New Radical Imaginaries to Assert Epistemic Media and Communication Rights; Bart Cammaerts.- 5. (Re-)casting Epistemic Rights as Human Rights: The challenges of conceptualisation, articulation and operationalisation; Tarlach McGonagle.- 6. Epistemic Rights and Digital Communications Policies: Tech politics after Piketty; Terry Flew.- 7. Epistemic Justice and Open Access Knowledge Dissemination; Anis Rahman, Heather Morrison and Tanoh Laurent Kako.- 8. Public Service Media as Enablers of Epistemic Rights; Alessandro D'Arma and Maria Michalis.- National and Regional Cases.- 9. Epistemic Struggles in Decolonial African Contexts; viola c. minton and Winston Mano.- 10. Balancing Rights to Information and Right to Data Protection in the Digital Era: The case of China; Yik Chan Chin.- 11. From Digital Divides to Digital Capital: How Russian media policy attempts to create new rights; Elena Vartanova.- 12. Erosion of Epistemic Rights: Conditions of journalism in Central and Eastern Europe; Marius Dragomir and Minna Horowitz.- 13. Nordic Illusion and Challenges for Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption; Riku Neuvonen, Katja Lehtisaari, Marko Ala-Fossi, Reeta Poyhtari, Jockum Hilden.- 14. Epistemic Rights and Right to Information to Brazil and Mexico; Fernando Oliveira Paulino and Luma Poletti Dutra.- Implications.- 15. Implications for Communication Scholarship.- 16. Conclusion: Epistemic transformations and policy implications; Minna Horowitz, Hanna Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D'Arma.