Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Part I: Foundations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Epistemic Turn -- References -- Chapter 2: Why We Need Epistemic Rights -- Why We Need Epistemic Rights -- Epistemic Rights: The Concept -- From Communication Rights to Epistemic Rights -- Three Phases of the Communication Rights Movement -- The New World Information and Communication Order -- Towards the World Summit on Information Society -- After the Geneva and Tunis Conferences -- Digital Rights? -- Lessons Learned from Past Movements -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Concepts and Issues -- Chapter 3: On the Need to Revalue Old Radical Imaginaries to Assert Epistemic Media and Communication Rights Today -- Introduction -- Liberal and Socialist Radical Social Imaginaries -- The Liberal Radical Imaginary -- The Socialist Radical Imaginary -- Public Interventions in Media and Communication Inspired by Radical Imaginaries -- Ownership -- Access -- Media Content -- Communication Infrastructures -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Epistemic Rights, Information Inequalities, and Public Policy -- Introduction -- Advertiser Valuations of Audiences -- Media Ownership -- Digital Divides -- Journalism Divides -- Disinformation Divides -- Algorithmic Bias -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: (Re-)casting Epistemic Rights as Human Rights: Conceptual Conundrums for the Council of Europe -- Introduction -- The Council of Europe's System for Freedom of Expression -- A Central Emphasis on Democracy and Participation in Public Debate -- The Epistemic Underpinnings of Participation in Public Debate -- The Court's Incidental Appreciation of Epistemic Rights -- An Informed Public -- Facts and Value Judgements -- Historical Facts -- Duties and Responsibilities -- Specific Epistemic Rights as Human Rights?.

Equality in Access to and Availability of All Relevant and Truthful Information That Concerns Issues Under Will Formation and Decision-Making -- Equality in Obtaining Competence in Critically Assessing and Applying Knowledge for Their Good as well as for the Public Good -- Equality in Public Deliberation About Will Formation and Decision-Making in Matters of Public Interest -- Equal Freedom from External Influence and Pressure When Making Choices -- Conclusion -- References -- Council of Europe (CoE) -- European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): -- Primary Sources -- Chapter 6: Epistemic Rights and Digital Communications Policies: Collective Rights and Digital Citizenship -- Introduction: Communication and Citizenship Revisited -- The 'Double Movement' of Platforms and Power -- Technocracy and Populism in Tech Policy -- Epistemic Rights and the Return of the Collective -- References -- Chapter 7: Public Service Media: From Epistemic Rights to Epistemic Justice -- Introduction -- What Are PSM For? -- PSM: From Epistemic Rights to Epistemic Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: National and Regional Cases -- Chapter 8: Towards Feminist Futures in the Platform Economy: Four Stories from India -- Introduction: Gender Narratives in the Platform Economy -- Damini and the Urban Company -- Sushila, Yamuna, and Uber -- Jayashree and Amazon Mechanical Turk -- Sakhi, Diya, and the Self-Employed Women's Association -- Discussion: The Social Power of Platforms-A Feminist Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Epistemic Rights and Right to Information in Brazil and Mexico -- Introduction -- Key Historical Events in the Introduction of the Right to Access to Information: A Comparative View Between Mexico and Brazil -- Challenges in the Right to Access to Information in Mexico and Brazil -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 10: Digital Authoritarianism and Epistemic Rights in the Global South: Unpacking Internet Shutdowns in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Digital Rights as Epistemic Rights -- Political Weaponisation -- Human Rights Violations -- Erosion of Public Trust -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Epistemic Violators: Disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe -- Introduction -- Focus: Epistemic Rights and Their Violation by Journalism -- Context: CEE, Media Capture, and Epistemic Erosion -- Actors: Typology of Violators of Epistemic Rights -- State-Controlled and Captured Public Media -- Privately Owned, Oligarch-Controlled Media -- Other Sources of Disinformation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Nordic Illusion and Challenges for Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Media -- Introduction -- The Nordic Media Model -- A Long-Shared History -- From Enmity to Cooperation -- Nordic Constitutions and Freedom of Speech -- Analysing the Transition of Media Welfare States -- The Roles of National Path Dependence and Supranational Decision-Making -- The Transition from Welfare States to Competition States -- The Digital Era and Epistemic Rights in the Nordic Countries -- Three Illustrative Cases -- Case 1: Path Dependence and Supranational Decision-Making, the Regulation of Online Audiovisual Media -- Case 2: The Public's Dialogical Rights Versus the Press's Private Interests -- Case 3: Hate Speech as a Threat to Free Expression and Dialogue and Policy Solutions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Right to Data Access in the Digital Era: The Case of China -- Introduction -- Epistemic Rights and Right to Data Access -- Right to Access Data -- Academic Debate on the Right to Access Digital Data in China -- Rules Governing Access to Digital Data in China -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Implications.

Chapter 14: Conclusion: Ubiquitous Need for Epistemic Rights and the Way Forward -- Fundamental Issues -- Why Epistemic Rights Now? -- Key Institutions -- The Role of the Media -- Human Rights and Global Dimensions -- Similarities and Differences Around the Globe -- Epistemic Rights as Human Rights -- Future Prospects -- Need for New Foci -- The Role of Research -- References -- Index.