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This chapter gives an overview to how digital rights are understood in Australia and investigates if these are in relationship to notions of environmental sustainability. More-than-real spaces can produce atomized framings of human-environmental connections and dissociate campaigns for digital rights from other struggles. By presenting perspectives from digital rights activists and narratives of social and cultural digital interventions, this chapter shows how environmental concerns are not always sidelined, and that more needs to be done to strengthen digital rights claims. The more-than-real is not a fixed, static space but full of possibilities and heterogeneities, similar to non-digital spaces (Massey 2005). McLean argues that if we perceive the ongoing expansion of digital technologies in our everyday lives as having space for conversations around digital rights, then there is also space for bringing environmental sustainability along for that troublesome ride.
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Q&A itself has a strong social media presence as it uses a ‘livefeed’ of Twitter commentary from people not in the audience as a banner during its broadcast.
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The Assistance and Access Bill was introduced to Australian parliament in September 2018.
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McLean, J. (2020). Digital Rights and Digital Justice: Defining and Negotiating Shifting Human–Technology Relations. In: Changing Digital Geographies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28307-0_4
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