Does the Digitization Process Produce a New Type of Human Rights?

Volume 9-|Issue 9| Dec 2024 |Research Papers

Abstract

Technology has not only changed people's lives, but it has also contributed to the emergence of a new type of citizenship and a new system of digital human rights. This study aims to explore the futures of this new model of citizen who lives between the physical and the digital spheres. This digital citizenship requires its own digital rights, which are compatible with the ontological nature of digital reality and represent a response to the inability of the real-life model of human rights to guarantee these rights in the digital environment. The study demonstrates that digital human rights are subject to the obstacle of digital disparities. This means that the universality of human rights is unachievable in the physical and digital worlds at the same time, thus rendering the future achievability of universality dependent on reducing these digital disparities, in order to establish a society capable of protecting and accepting digital human rights.

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​Researcher in Sociology, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco.

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