Università Roma Tre

Kickoff Lecture (topic to be decided)

Section one – Digital Rights
• Right to privacy and data protection
• E-commerce and consumer protection
• Online services and the algorithmic society

Workshop 1 (topic to be decided)

Section two – Online Protection of Fundamental Rights
• Freedom of expression and hate speech
• Protecting children online
• Countering terrorism in the digital space

Workshop 2 (topic to be decided)

Section Three – Digital Political Participation
• Digital democracy
• Digital platforms and citizenship
• Digital parties and political participation

Final conference (topic to be decided)

Readings and studying materials will be provided during the Modules

CONTENT:
SECTION TWO – PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
• Freedom of expression and Hate speech
• Protecting children online
• Countering terrorism in the digital space
The second section (Online Protection of Fundamental Rights) addresses the transnational and international aspects of the online protection of particular fundamental rights, i.e. freedom of expression and dignity, children’s rights and security rights.
In particular
1) Internet Governance@UN - Right to digital education & citizenship
Legal framework / Technical approach
The UN debate and contributions from the UNGA and the UNSG
Internet Governance and human rights: criticalities
The EU context
The Italian context
Digital education & citizenship: the basics
2) Freedom of expression and Hate speech (International and UE)
UN Legal framework – human rights
The UN debate and programming measures on hate speech/UNESCO case
The CoE system: hate speech and violence
The EU context
3) Protecting children online
UN framework – UN CRC Committee / UNICEF + ITU
The OECD vision
The CoE context
The EU context: general approach / ENOC
Scientific research on children & Internet
4) Countering terrorism via digital tools: the international and EU
Basic Concepts
The UN legal framework and debate
The regional dimension: OSCE
The EU context

Bibliography
For each lecture the students will provided with all the main documentary and bibliographical references for further study of the topics covered by the Course.

The module provides students with an in-depth knowledge about the main legal and political aspects – at International and European level – concerning the citizens’ online life, focusing in particular on digital rights and the use of digital technologies allowing to participate in the political arena.

The Module “Digital Citizenship for EU (DiCit4EU)” aims to broaden the students’ knowledge of European Citizenship rights and duties, in order to raise their awareness about the new dimension assumed by EU Citizenship within the digital society, mainly to understand, promote and defend online EU values, principles and human rights.

The “Digital Citizenship for EU” Module is offered in the frame of the European Studies – Advanced Degree of the Department of Political Science and consists of 64 hours of lectures in English divided into 3 thematic areas:
– Digital rights
– Online fundamental rights
– Digital political participation

In the first section (Digital rights) students will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of the access to and the protection of EU digital rights, by focusing on legal and procedural aspects, with special attention to the relationship among citizens and the internal market.

The second section (Online Protection of Fundamental Rights) addresses the transnational and international aspects of the online protection of particular fundamental rights, i.e. freedom of expression and dignity, children’s rights and security rights.

The third section (Digital Political participation) is designed to explore aspects concerning the online political participation of European citizens, with specific reference to digital democracy, the relationship between citizenship and digital platforms, digital parties and online political participation.

Moreover, the Module includes 4 hours of Workshops, 2 hours on Media Literacy and Internet Governance in EU, 2 hours on Preventing, combating and countering Human Rights online violations in the form of Hate Speech, delivered by APICE, plus documentary analyses and Webinars delivered by the European Documentation Center-DISCIPOL, open to the general public.

Readings will be indicated in class