Digital Rights at the Periphery

Making Brazil's Marco Civil

Guy T. Hoskins

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University of Illinois Press
08 July 2025

Politics & government; Media, information & communication industries; Human rights & civil liberties law; IT & Communications law

Series: Geopolitics of Information

Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) appeared to offer pioneering legislation for a digital bill of rights that addressed issues like network neutrality and privacy. Guy T. Hoskins chronicles the Marco Civil's development and its failure to confront the greatest concentration of power in the digital age: informational capitalism. Combining interviews with discourse and political-economic analysis, Hoskins reveals why the legislation fell short while examining the implications of its emergence in Brazil, which remains on the margins of the global system of informational capitalism. Hoskins places collectivist and public service principles at the core of any framework's effectiveness. He also shows why we must create systems sensitive to the sociocultural and political-economic contexts that will shape digital rights and their usefulness.

Compelling and contrarian, Digital Rights at the Periphery looks at communications policy and internet governance in the Global South and the lessons they provide for the rest of the world.

By: Guy T. Hoskins
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252046674
ISBN 10: 0252046676
Series: Geopolitics of Information
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgments Introduction: Making the Marco Civil Understanding Informational Capitalism: Logics, Dynamics, Zones, and Discourses Circumscription: The Discursive Delimitation of Digital Rights Contestation: Power Plays and Debate Pollution Cataclysm: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Snowden at the Periphery Legacy: The Fragile Contingency of Digital Rights Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index

Guy T. Hoskins is a postdoctoral fellow with the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project at Carleton University and a contract lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University.