Keenan, Bernard (2024) Profilicity and online safety. Journal of Law and Society 51 (3), pp. 367-389. ISSN 0263-323X.
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Abstract
This article applies the concept of profilicity to the emergence of online harms legislation. Grounded in social systems theory, profilicity designates a mode of self-presentation prevalent in social media environments, although discernible in the growing number of situations where personal identity is mediated via a profile intended to be publicly observed. Profilicity is distinctly different to ‘authentic’ and ‘sincere’ modes of self-presentation, although they survive alongside it. The concept productively reframes what is at stake in the regulation of ‘harmful’ content on platform-based communications, exemplified in the Online Safety Act 2023, which is subject to extensive criticism for invading privacy and for mandating the censorship of lawful speech, values that evolved in relation to authenticity and autonomy. Profilicity engages law first via the identity techniques that law presupposes and second via the design decisions it now regulates.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Bernard Keenan |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2024 13:29 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2024 19:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53428 |
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