Human rights critique through social media. On subjectivity, testimony and jurisdiction in the Mediterranean

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Migration not only poses challenges for state, European and human rights institutions. It also undermines traditional boundaries and restrictions on public discourse. New media can document injustice and suffering at Europe's borders and make this information accessible to a wide audience. Mobile phone cameras and social networks are being used to demand human rights ‘from below’ and establish new critical public spheres. Investigative and citizen journalism contribute to the control of state power where this was previously hardly possible. This does not yet remedy the structural deficits of ‘Fortress Europe’. However, concrete examples will be used to show that media criticism of human rights explicitly or implicitly refers to institutional and legal issues and comments on them.

Speakers from the University of Münster

Endemann, Fabian

Professor of International Public Law and International Human Rights Law