The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms

The symposium emerged from a two-day hybrid workshop held at Leiden University in January 2024, supported by the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges initiative. Amidst an emerging critical human rights scholarship in the field of platform governance, this symposium seeks to problematize assumptions that human rights are the natural or obvious legal and normative framework for this field, and to nurture more sustained self-reflexivity over their potential, limits and ideological implications.