We Accept
Bit-by-bit Constitution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21470129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nofar Sheffi (University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice Address: Faculty of Law and Justice UNSW Sydney Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 174-212 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0174-0202 • E-ISSN: 2366-0392 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zfrs-2024-1009 |
| OpenAlex | W4396512653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In “We Accept: The Constitution of Airbnb”, published in 2020, I drew on Gunther Teubner’s systems theoretical approach, including to digitalisation and societal constitutionalism, to rethink Airbnb as an auto-constitutionalising domain. This dynamic process, the paper proceeded to suggest, instantiates a structural change, what can be described, in systems theoretical terms, as a “co-evolution” of multiple social systems through structural couplings. It renders observable an “emergence” of a general model of functioning – terms of use and engagement – epitomised by a reconceptualisation of the “social contract” as a network of “standard form contracts” or “contracts of adhesion”, and of an increasingly dominant mode of subjectivation: the standard formation or auto-constitution of subjects as adherents. In this new contribution, I continue this processing of social systems theory and Teubner’s work, this time through a deconstruction and reconstruction of Internet communication. Through this recursive illustration of social systems theory and Teubner’s work, the paper develops a social systems theoretical account of “process”, “constitution”, and “structural change”
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |