Legal Theory and the Media of Law

Vesting, Thomas

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“…A mesma história poderia ser contada com foco nos media, nos meios de disseminação da comunicação (Luhmann, 2012, cap. 2;Vesting, 2018). As sociedades segmentárias eram baseadas na comunicação oral e seu direito era costumeiro e centrado ao redor de fórmulas facilmente memorizáveis, registradas na tradição.…”

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O direito da sociedade digital: tecnologia, inovação jurídica e aprendizagem regulatória

Amato

2024

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Na última década do século XX, enquanto a internet se generalizava para usos domésticos e comerciais, Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) concluía uma das mais abrangentes e originais teorias da sociedade, calcada em homologias entre os sistemas sociais e os sistemas cibernéticos. Direito, política, economia, ciência, arte, educação – cada setor da sociedade seria uma rede autorreferencial de comunicações distinguidas por certo código binário: lícito/ ilícito, governo/ oposição, ter/ não ter, verdade/falsidade, beleza/ feiura, aprovado/ reprovado. O direito da sociedade (1993), A realidade dos meios de comunicação (1994), A sociedade da sociedade (1997) mal testemunharam a massificação da internet. O que dizer então do amplo e intensivo processo de digitalização de tratamentos e pagamentos, processos de ensino-aprendizagem, solução de conflitos e tomada de decisão, operações de produção, comércio e consumo? Inteligência artificial, fake news, big data, privacidade de dados pessoais nas redes e plataformas digitais – em que medida este novo horizonte tecnológico pode se valer das formulações disruptivas da teoria dos sistemas sociais para atualizá-las e assim mobilizá-las para descrever a complexidade dos desafios impostos ao sistema jurídico? Como vem se construindo o direito, em sua função de imunizar a sociedade digital contra os vírus da incerteza radical, da desinformação massiva, da perda de referências de sentido, da desintegração de razões e padrões de avaliação, justificação e crítica? Eis o horizonte teórico e problemático deste livro.

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O direito da sociedade digital: tecnologia, inovação jurídica e aprendizagem regulatória

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2024

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“…The transition of stratification towards functional differentiation had an important impact on the invention of the printing press, allowing for the birth both of a system of mass communication and of public opinion as a “mirror” before which political power would need to perform its operations and seek legitimation. As Vesting (2018) observes, from then on communication could be horizontally processed among the populace, via their claims, manifestos and declarations. Nowadays, however, these dynamics have changed due to the usage of big data management, customized marketing and “profiling” in social media (Moeller and D’Ambrosio, 2019): politicians and political entities can adapt their image to each trend in public opinion, followed in real time through traces left by individual users on the worldwide web.…”

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Fake News in Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections: A Systems Theory Approach to Judicial and Legal Responses

Barros

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Saba

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Social & Legal Studies

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This article adopts an approach from social systems theory to map the legislative and judicial responses produced by Brazilian law in light of the 2018 presidential election in Brazil, a political event marked by the mass dissemination of fake news. The study applies social systems theory to observe and interpret the legislative process in relation to a Draft Statute on Fake News which is part of a regulatory movement concerning digital communications and personal data in Brazil. The article combines this with observations on case law from the Superior Electoral Court regarding fake news dissemination during the 2018 presidential election. The results of these analyses demonstrate the difficulty of regulating fake news in Brazil and the problems with a legal framework based on the deference of the Judiciary to legislative decisions; its openness to technology experts; and the adoption of “regulated self-regulation” as a way of building an interface between legal and political national systems and transnational digital platforms.

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“…Inconvenient or bothersome communicative offers become successful as soon as a specialized communication medium furthers drastically the chances for their acceptance: the seduction of money for handing over goods and services, power threats for obedience to commands, theoretical or empirical proof for implausible assertions, the pressure of credits and exams for accepting learning offers, and normative persuasion for legal judgments. Communication media are success-media, in contrast to mere dissemination-media (orality, writing, printing, digitality) (Baecker, 2016; for historical correlations between dissemination media and legal structures, see Vesting, 2018). Success-media make sure that a communicative offer is accepted.…”

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The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values

Teubner

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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The article rebuts the primacy of economic profit in advanced capitalist societies, and submits that the imperative to extract surplus value governs also the law and other social domains and is not merely a product of economic forces. Not only the economy but also the law and other function systems force each of their operations to generate a specific surplus value – but now explicitly non-monetary – beyond its immediate production of meaning. The object of the surplus orientation is the system’s own communication medium – power, truth/reputation, money, and juridical authority. The success of surplus pressures is responsible for the immensely productive forces unleashed in capitalism. However, they demonstrate an excessive ambivalence: immense productivity and its destructive dark side. Similar to the monetary profit pressure in the economy, (auto- and hetero-) destructive tendencies of non-monetary surplus pressures have multiplied in the law and in other areas of life. Political-legal counterstrategies combating the negative side of diverse societal surplus productions could be inspired from Karl Polanyi’s famous concept of false commodities and their replacement by non-market institutions.

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O direito da sociedade digital: tecnologia, inovação jurídica e aprendizagem regulatória

O direito da sociedade digital: tecnologia, inovação jurídica e aprendizagem regulatória

Fake News in Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections: A Systems Theory Approach to Judicial and Legal Responses

The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values

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