Conception of Structural Integration of “Digital Human Rights”

Information technology penetrates the living world, but “digital human rights” are in urgent need of effective theoretical integration for their concepts are ambiguous and their discourse is fragmented. “Digital human rights” have been interpreted in many ways, but there are paradoxes in the argument of “information man”. Firstly, the existence of human beings is over-generalized; secondly, the imaginary deviathan leads to the lack of foundation for human rights, and thirdly, the concepts are misplaced in translingual contexts. “Digital human rights” as a discourse are clearly more advantageous than they are as a concept, and have already gained solid discourse power, which helps to alleviate the dilemma of discourse fragmentation. Their fragmented characteristics can be seen in the three discourse carriers of law, rule of law and jurisprudence, and thus need to be integrated. As a discourse, “digital human rights” can be integrated in four respects of identity, concept, function, and value, with data as the core and with reference to the basic structure of discourse of human rights in terms of subject, object, content and relationship. They are distinguished into a quaternary relationship through the two operational dimensions of production and control, and their genealogical construction can be planned in a four-quadrant structure, in which human rights claims about digits can be integrated.